From the outset of his career as a conductor, Christoph Poppen’s name has been synonymous with innovative programming and a wide-ranging commitment to contemporary music. Numerous guest conducting engagements have taken him to orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberger Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Detroit and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Wiener Symphoniker, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, New Japan Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg.

Poppen is chief conductor of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, music director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and principal guest conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Founder and artistic director of the award-winning and internationally acclaimed Festival Internacional de Música de Marvão, he was also artistic director of the Classic Revolution festival in Seoul between 2020 and 2022, for which he conceived highly creative programmes and brought together artists from Korea and the Western world for exclusive performances in the LOTTE Concert Hall. Christoph Poppen has held a newly created chair for violin at the renowned Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid since 2021–22.

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