Christoph Poppen

Christoph Poppen is respectable as a instructor, violinist, and conductor championing music written after 1900. He started acquiring violin lessons young, with 14 he earned the International Kocian Competition of Czechoslovakia. He went to the Robert Schumann Institute of Düsseldorf and graduated in 1976. At that time he had currently earned the 1975 Preis der Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie. He continuing his violin research with Joseph Gingold, Oscar Shumsky, and Nathan Milstein. In 1977, he earned the International Vaclav Huml Violin Competition in Zagreb, and in 1983, the Rudolf Lipizer Competition in Gorizia as well as the Carl Flesch Competition in London. He founded the Cherubini String Quartet in 1978 and was its 1st violinist. The quartet earned he Karl Klingler Reward in Hannover in 1979 as well as the 1st prize from the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France, in 1981. Poppen toured in his personal right so when a member from the Cherubini Quartet, going to a lot of the main European concert locations, appearing with main orchestras and on many radio and tv broadcasts. In 1988, he became a member of the faculty from the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, as teacher of violin and chamber music and quickly became popular being a violin pedagogue. In 1989, he recognized the positioning of artistic movie director from the Detmold Chamber Orchestra and begun to establish a popularity as conductor. He still left Detmold in 1995 to become teacher on the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, also portion as its leader (1996-2000), and creative director from the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Using the orchestra, he provides recorded the entire Joseph Haydn violin concertos along with his previous pupil Isabelle Faust over the Skillet Classics label and the tiny orchestra music of Karl Amadeus Hartmann on ECM. In 2002, he as well as the Hilliard Outfit collaborated over the record Morimur. Poppen provides guest conducted broadly in Europe. One of the orchestras he offers led will be the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Saarbrücken and Hannover radio symphony orchestras, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in Finland, the Hilversum (Holland) Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, as well as the Bamberg Symphony. In the switch of the hundred years, he branched into operatic management, performing Mozart’s Magic Flute in the Tyrolean Condition Theatre in Innsruck, Austria, and coming back there to business lead Rossini’s Otello. In 2001 he was called artistic movie director of Munich’s ARD International Music Competition. From 2007-2011, he offered as the primary conductor from the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and offered the same part in 2006 for the air Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken. Later on recorded attempts included Silvestrov: Bagatellen and Serenaden (2007), Bach: Toccatas (2009), and Schuman: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata No. 2 (2010).