French-born conductor Chloé Dufresne recently won the Orchestra prize, the Audience prize and a “special mention” from the Besançon International Competition for young conductors in 2021. She is also the 3rd prize winner of the Malko conducting competition (2021) and finalist of the Siemens-Hallé International Conductors Competition (2020.)She was also Laureate of the Tremplin des jeunes cheffes organized by La Philharmonie de Paris in 2018.

Chloé Dufresne initially studied viola, vocal performance and choral conducting. From 2015 to 2020 she studied orchestra conducting with Maestri Atso Almila and Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. In 2018-19, she was an exchange student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, under the guidance of Alain Altinoglu.

She graduated with a master’s degree from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Dufresne has participated in masterclasses with renowned conductors such as Paavo Jarvi, Mikko Franck, Johannes Schlaefli, David Zinman, Susanna Mälkki, Hannu Lintu. She has been fortunate to conduct first-class orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki City Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sinfonia Lahti, Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Her professional projects led Dufresne to assist Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo at the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Kokkola Opera. She has also been invited for several symphonic concerts with Opéra de Rouen, Opéra national de Lorraine, Orchestre national d’Auvergne, Opéra de Vichy and Philharmonie de Paris where she made her debut with the Orchestre Pasdeloup in 2020.

Recently she made her debut with Orchestre national de France with whom she also recorded the Marseillaise for the handover ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024.

In opera repertoire, Chloé was invited to conduct Bayreuth production of Wagner’s Ring for children in Helsinki (August 2019), Bellini’s Norma in ‘Narva Opera Days’ (2019), Offenbach’s Pomme d’Api in Opéra de Toulon (November 2019). She assisted Sakari Oramo for Meyerbeer’s Etoile du Nord in Kokkola Opera, and Jérome Pillement for Donizetti’s La fille du régiment in Opéra de Montpellier.

Among her future projects, Chloé Dufresne will conduct Offenbach’s Le Voyage dans la lune at Opéra de Nice and Opéra de Limoges. She will return to conduct Opéra de Rouen’s orchestra and is also invited to conduct Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France and Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie. In Finland, she will conduct Vaasa City orchestra and Pori Sinfonietta.