Christoph Poppen

From August 2006 until Summer 2011 Christoph Poppen was Music Director of the German Radio Philharmonic, having been given the role of overseeing also the merger of his orchestra with the Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern. A frequent guest with various orchestras he has appeared with the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Staatskapelle Dresden, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Singapore Symphony, Detroit and Indianapolis symphony orchestras, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.

In the 2011/12 season Christoph Poppen will be leading new productions of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Aalto Theatre Essen, Die Zauberflöte at Frankfurt Opera and Falstaff at Innsbruck Opera House. Other highlights this season include his debuts with the Wiener Symphoniker and the Estonian National Orchestra. He returns to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for concerts and recordings of Hartmann's complete symphonies.

As a violinist Christoph Poppen has been the laureate of many German and international violin competitions. The project Morimur (Bach’s D Minor Partita with the Hilliard Ensemble) was highly successful as a concert version as well as a CD recording.