Meeting with the Guest Composer of the Festival ENNO POPPE (Germany)
October 28, Monday
National Philharmonic Hall, 19:00
Moderator Rasa Murauskaitė-Juškienė
Meeting partner – Goethe-Institut
Free entrance
Enno Poppe (b. 1969) is one of the most important composers in Germany, based in Berlin since 1990. He studied conducting and composition at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann and Gösta Neuwirth, among others. Additionally, he studied sound synthesis and algorithmic composition at the Technische Universität Berlin and at the ZKM Karlsruhe. As a conductor, Enno Poppe regularly performs with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik and Ensemble Resonanz as well as with international orchestras. Since 1998 he has also been a member and conductor of ensemble mosaik. Enno Poppe taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, at Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik and at Impuls Akademie (Graz).
Enno Poppe received commissions from ensembles all over Europe and abroad, orchestras such as Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, and festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Salzburger Festspiele, musica viva (München), Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Eclat (Stuttgart) and Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik.
Enno Poppe’s works have been performed by quartets such as Arditti Quartet and Kairos Quartet, conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Emilio Pomárico and Peter Rundel and orchestras such as SWR Sinfonieorchester, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Among the ensembles that regularly perform his music are Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Resonanz, Klangforum Wien, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Contrechamps, Musikfabrik, Ensemble 2e2m, SWR Vokalensemble and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart.
Enno Poppe’s received awards include the Busoni Composition Prize of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2002), Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2005), and many others. Enno Poppe is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (since 2008), the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste (since 2009) and the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (since 2010).