Chloé Dufresne
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The Colorado Springs Philharmonic has announced that French-born Chloé Dufresne is the next Music Director from the 2025-26 season. Dufresne, who lives in Paris, will take over the role vacated by Josep Caballé Domenech at the end of the orchestra’s 2022-2023 season.

Chloé Dufresne won both audience and orchestra prizes at the 2021 Besançon Conducting Competition, as well as being finalist at the Malko Competition. She was a Conducting Fellow at the 2022 Lucerne Festival and a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 22–23 season, and Gustavo Dudamel subsequently invited her to the Opéra de Paris Académie for 23–24. From 23/24 she also serves as an Artistic Director of Orchestre Ostinato, a Paris-based orchestra for musicians at the start of their careers.

Dufresne studied viola, singing and choral conducting before completing her Masters in conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2020, where her teachers included Atso Almila, Sakari Oramo and Alain Altinoglu. She attended masterclasses with Mikko Franck, Paavo Järvi, Hannu Lintu, David Zinman, Thomas Adès and Susanna Mälkki and has assisted Sakari Oramo, Gustavo Dudamel and Esa-Pekka Salonen.