Enno Poppe (born 30 December 1969 in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher.
Enno Poppe studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann and Gösta Neuwirth, among others. He studied further at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe.
Since 1998 he has conducted the ensemble mosaik for contemporary music in Berlin. He taught from 2002 to 2004 at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He received commissions from the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the SWR for the Donaueschinger Musiktage and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Poppe was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1995/96,[1] and won an Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize in 2001.[2]
His opera Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (Work, Nourishment, Lodging) on a libretto of Marcel Beyer was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008.[3]
Since 2008 Poppe is a member of the Akademie der Künste, since 2009 of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and since 2010 of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste.