Barbara Dragan most recently was selected from 274 candidates for international conducting competition Deutscher Dirigentenpreis.
In June 2021 she took part as Assistant Conductor in first post-Covid German Tour of Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, performing a.o. in Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Konzerthaus in Berlin.
In February 2021 she was named Conducting Fellow for the 2021 The Dallas Opera Hart Institute.
Since April 2021 she is studying prestigious performance degree „Konzerexamen” at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr.
Dragan is an award recipient of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship (TACF) and the German DAAD Scholarship.
She is graduated from Universität der Künste in Berlin, where she studied with Prof. Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis (International Conducting Academy Berlin). Prior to her studies there, she was a student at the Frédéric Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Dragan was born into a Polish family of scientists and engineers. She started playing the violin from the age of five and thirteen years later, she graduated from a music high school.
Whilst studying the violin and the oboe, she passed her final exams in advanced mathematics and physics.