{"id":1622,"date":"2023-04-18T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conflux.qodeinteractive.com\/?page_id=1622"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:39:29","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christoph-poppen.com\/de\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biografie"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Conductor, soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue, Christoph Poppen has made a name for himself in diverse roles in the international musical world. Since the 2023\/2024 season he is Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta. His 2025\/2026 season with the orchestra is highlighted by collaborations with such illustrious artists as Nicolas Altstaedt, Martin Helmchen, Denis Kozhukhin and Alexander Gadjiev.<\/h6>
As Hong Kong Sinfonietta\u2019s Principal Guest Conductor between 2015-2023, Poppen has presented to the Hong Kong audience a rich repertoire ranging from Austro-German masterpieces to contemporary works. In the current season, he will premiere three new works commissioned by the orchestra. Away from Hong Kong, he continues his highly successful collaborations with Cologne Chamber Orchestra as Principal Conductor and Israel Chamber Orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor, while being the Artistic Director of the Marv\u00e3o International Music Festival. Highlights of the 2025\/2026 season include engagements with the Korean National Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, and a conducting appearance with the China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing.<\/h6>
His discography is further enriched by the continuation of the recorded cycle of the complete Mozart Masses with Cologne Chamber Orchestra for Naxos. The latest release (Vol. 4, February 2025) has been highly praised by the international press.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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From 1995-2006, Poppen was Artistic Director of Munich Chamber Orchestra, establishing the ensemble\u2019s new profile in a short period of time. His distinctive programmes, often contrasting classical and contemporary styles with numerous commissioned works, were highly successful. In 2006, he was appointed Music Director of Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbr\u00fccken and from 2007-2011, he was Music Director of the newly formed Deutsche Radio Philharmonie. He has appeared with orchestras such as Vienna Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Detroit Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bamberg Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Orquestra Sinf\u00f4nica do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Indianapolis Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. As an opera conductor, he has enjoyed acclaimed collaborations with Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Frankfurt, Opera K\u00f6ln, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen and the RuhrTriennale.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Founded by Poppen in 2014, the Marv\u00e3o International Music Festival has grown to become a highly successful and award-winning musical event featuring soloists such as J\u00f6rg Widmann, Augustin Hadelich, Javier Perianes and Clara-Jumi Kang. He also founded the Academy for Music, Arts and Science in Marv\u00e3o in 2019, and was the Artistic Director of the Classic Revolution Festival in Seoul, South Korea between 2020-2022<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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As a prize-winning violinist, Poppen co-founded the Cherubini Quartet in 1978. He was appointed Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Detmold, and later at Hanns Eisler Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Berlin, where he was President from 1996 to 2000.\u00a0 From 2001 to 2005, he was Artistic Director of the renowned ARD International Music Competition. From 2003 to 2023, he has been Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Munich. Since the 2021\/2022 academic year, he has been Chair Professor of Violin at the prestigious Escuela Superior de M\u00fasica Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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