CHLOÉ
DUFRESNE
CONDUCTOR - CHEFFE D'ORCHESTRE
Chloé Dufresne is making her mark as a conductor to watch with her clean technique and wide palette of colours. A prize winner at both the 2021 Malko and Besançon Conducting Competitions, Chloé has been selected as a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She was a finalist in the 2020 Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition and nominated in the new conductors category at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique Classique.
Dufresne began the 22/23 season as a Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival where she conducted the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in a piece by Tyshawn Sorey. This season she conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Montpellier and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and in October makes her Japanese debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic conducting Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. In the pit she conducts a new production of Donizetti Elisir d’amore for Angers Nantes Opéra, Gounod Faust for Opéra de Vichy and Offenbach Le Voyage dans la Lune at opera houses in Massy, Metz, Reims and Rouen.
Her vocal and choral conducting backgrounds lend her naturally to opera. She has conducted titles including Mozart Don Giovanni, Bellini Norma, Britten Albert Herring and Offenbach Pomme d’Api and Le Voyage dans la lune for Opéra Rouen, Opéra de Toulon, Opéra Nice and Opéra National de Lorraine and a Bayreuth production of Wagner Ring for children at the Helsinki Festival. She is strong in romantic and contemporary music and was praised by Besançon jury chair Paul Daniel for her “originality and freshness, and an especially good understanding of Camille Pépin”. In symphonic repertoire she has recently conducted the Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National d’ile de France, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre d’Auvernge, Vassa City Orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta. In summer 2022 was she was a Conducting Fellow at the Lucerne Festival where she conducted the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in a piece by Tyshawn Sorey.
Chloé Dufresne studied viola, singing and choral conducting before completing her Masters in conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2020 where he teachers included Atso Almila, Sakari Oramo and Alain Altinoglu during a secondment to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. She attended masterclasses with Mikko Franck, Paavo Jarvi, Hannu Lintu, David Zinman Thomas Adè and Susanna Mälkki and has assisted Sakari Oramo and Laurence Equilbey. This season she assists Gustavo Dudamel, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
JUNE 19th 2023
MUSIQUE EN FETES - CHOREGIES D'ORANGE
Carmen - extracts
Musiques en fête, en direct des Chorégies d'Orange (choregies.fr)
JULY 1st 2023
LES ETOILES DU CLASSIQUE - 2023
CONCERT SYMPHONIQUE – Les Étoiles du Classique (lesetoilesduclassique.fr)
JULY 28th 2023
FESTIVAL DE RADIO FRANCE
Orchestre de Montpellier
La Danse !
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL MONTPELLIER OCCITANIE, CHLOE DUFRESNE, direction - la danse - Le Festival
AUGUST 19th 2023
NORWEGIAN RADIO ORCHESTRA - Aase Nordmo-Løvberg 100 år
Wagner, Verdi, Grieg, Bellini, Purcell, Bizet,Beethoven
Marita Sølberg, sopran
Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzosopran
Marius Roth Christensen, tenor
Audun Iversen, baryton
Ida Løvheim, vokal og trekkspill
Nina Fjeldet, fele
Mellembygd mannskor
Ingerid Stenvold, programleiar
SEPTEMBER 23th 2023
OPERA DE MONTPELLIER - CONCERT DE RENTREE
Manon Lamaison, soprano
Felix Gygli, baryton
Chœur Opéra national Montpellier Occitanie
Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie
OCTOBRE 7th 2023
ORCHESTRE OSTINATO
LANCEMENT DE LA NOUVELLE DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
Chloé Dufresne, direction
Julien Leroy, direction
Jean-François Heisser, piano
Pierre Fouchenneret, violon
Anne Gastinel, violoncelle
Beethoven / Ives / Saint-Saëns
Chateau-Thierry
Concert de lancement de la nouvelle direction artistique – Ostinato – L'Orchestre
OCTOBER 8th 2023
FINALE DU CONCOURS VOIX NOUVELLES
ORCHESTRE DE NICE - OPERA COMIQUE
Lauranne Oliva - Soprano, Linsey Coppens - Mezzo-soprano, Valentin Thill - Ténor, Lila Dufy - Soprano - Soprano, Livia Louis Joseph Dogué - Soprano, Emy Gazeilles - Soprano, Leo Vermot-Desroches - Ténor, Juliette Mey - Mezzo-soprano, Héloïse Poulet - Soprano, Lotte Verstaen - Mezzo-soprano
OCTOBER 18th, 19th, 22th 2023
TOKYO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Lili Boulanger : D’un matin de printemps
Saint-Saens : Violin concerto n.3 (solist : Lina Nakano)
Berlioz : Symphonie Fantastique
NOVEMBER 10, 11 & 12th 2023
OPERA DE TOURS
Éric Tanguy - Incanto
Camille Saint-Saëns - Concerto pour violoncelle N° 1
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, opus 14
solist : Emmanuelle Bertrand
NOVEMBER 16 & 17th 2023
TAPIOLA SINFONIETTA
ROUSSELl: Le festin de l’araignée
EDWARDS: Oboe Concerto (Anni Haapaniemi, oboe)
RAASAKKA: Premiere
SIBELIUS: The Tempest
Tapiola Sinfonietta: EARTH AND AIR (Nature Festival) | City of Espoo
NOVEMBER 20th 2023
DECEMBER 3rd 2023 - Philharmonie de Paris
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL D'ILE DE FRANCE
L'Orchestre - Cherche et Trouve autour du monde
Scolaire 24, 28 et 30 Novembre et 1er et 2 Décembre
L'Orchestre, cherche et trouve autour du monde (orchestre-ile.com)
2022-2023
Médias
Olympic Games - Handover Ceremony
Tokyo 2021 to Paris 2024 - Orchestre National de France
Besançon International Conducting Competition for Young conductor 2021
Camille Pépin : Aux confins de l'Orage (world premiere)
Sibelius : Symphony n.5
Orchestre National de Lyon
Malko Competition for Young conductor 2021
Tchaikovsky : 4th symphony 1st mov.
C. Nielsen : Maskarade Overture
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 12.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Debussy: Apres midi d’un faune
Britta Byström: New commission for the Malko Competition
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 10.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Sibelius: Violin Concerto - 1st mov
Soloist: Johannes Søe Hansen
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
10.06.2021
DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 9.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 1. mov.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
7.06.2021
at DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark. DR©2021
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In Philharmonie de Paris
Camille Pépin : Vajrayana
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Orchestre de Picardie
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