Chloé Dufresne Conductor

Biography

A native of Montpellier, Chloé Dufresne studied voice, viola, and choral conducting before earning a master's degree in orchestral conducting from the Sibelius Academy in 2020. Winner of the Malko and Besançon conducting competitions in 2021, she is conductor-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival in 2022, Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2022-2023, and conductor-in-residence at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris in 2023-2024. In September 2024, she was appointed Associate Artist of the Orchestre national de Bretagne and Artistic Director of the Orchestre Ostinato.

In recent seasons she has debuted with the Vienna Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, Munich Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre philharmonique royal de Liège, Gävle Symfoniorkester and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Chloé Dufresne regularly conducts in France, working with the Orchestre national de France, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre national de Bordeaux, Orchestre national de Lille and Orchestre de l'Opéra de Montpellier.

She conducts several orchestras in Scandinavia, including the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Her experience as a vocal and choral conductor led her naturally to opera. She has conducted Don Giovanni, Norma, Britten's Albert Herring and Offenbach's Pomme d'Api for the Opéras de Rouen, Toulon, Nice and the Opéra national de Lorraine, as well as a production of the Ring for children in Bayreuth and at the Helsinki Festival. Last season she conducted a new production of L'Élixir d'amour at the Angers Nantes Opéra, Faust at the Opéra de Vichy and Le Voyage dans la Lune at the Opéras de Massy, Metz, Reims and Rouen.