Barbara Dragan - NOSPR

Barbara Dragan most recently was named Conducting Fellow for the 2021 Dallas Opera Hart Institute. From April 2021 she is studying Konzertexamen at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Ulrich Windfuhr. She is an award recipient of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship and the DAAD Scholarship.
She graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin, where she studied with Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis (International Conducting Academy Berlin). Prior to her studies there, she was a student at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She has taken part in many masterclasses, including those led by Colin Metters, Jorma Panula, Sian Edwards, and Antony Hermus.
She conducted several professional orchestras such as the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Bochumer Symphoniker, Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Chamber Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Sinfonietta Cracovia, and Beethoven Academy Orchestra.