Christoph Poppen
Christoph Poppen ( born March 9, 1956 in Münster ) is a German conductor and violinist.
Artistic work
Conductor, soloist, chamber musician and teacher: Christoph Poppen has made a name in the international music world in many ways and won numerous awards. Born in 1956, Christoph Poppen in 1995 conductor and artistic director of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, which he lent a new profile in no time. His unmistakable programs were based on a contrast of classical works with a variety of contemporary and commissioned works, received international attention. In August 2006, he assumed the position of Chief Conductor of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, which he Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern headed to the merger with the Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern from September 2007 under the name of German radio until the summer of 2011. The highlight of the first season was an open- air concert with pianist Hélène Grimaud on the island of Mainau.
In addition, Christoph Poppen is in demand worldwide as a guest conductor, including with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Indianapolis and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Singapore Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Turku Philharmonic, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and many others.
Christoph Poppen is married to the soprano Juliane Banse. The couple has three children and lives in Diessen.
Music teacher
As an educator he taught from 1988 to 1995 at the Academy of Music in Detmold and was in 1995 appointed professor at the Academy of Music " Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, whose rector from 1996 to 2000. Since 2003 he has been professor of violin and chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. After five years of work he has handed over the artistic director of the International Music Competition of the ARD to his successor in 2005.
Awards - Honors
As a soloist, he has won numerous national and international violin competitions. In 1978 he founded the Cherubini Quartet, with whom he won the Grand Prix at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian / France as leader in 1981. In 1984 he received the Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia for music. This was followed by concerts in almost all the major stages of the world as well as numerous CD, radio and television recordings. His CD and concert project " Morimur " - a recording of Bach's Partita in D minor with the Hilliard Ensemble - is in its sixth season. 2010, awarded every two years Art Prize Saarland he was awarded. The Verleihungsakt in early 2011.