Enno Poppe, born in 1969, is one of Germany’s most important composers of contemporary music. Poppe studied conducting and composition at Berlin University of the Arts, under Friedrich Goldmann and Gösta Neuwirth, among others. In addition to scholarships—including from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano—he received the Boris Blacher Prize in 1998, the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart in 2000, the Busoni Composition Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin in 2002, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Förderpreis in 2004, the Schneider-Schott Prize in 2005, the Kaske Foundation Prize in 2009, and the Hans and Gertrud Zender Foundation Prize in 2011. He is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Düsseldorf, and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works are performed worldwide by almost all renowned ensembles and at most festivals for new music. Enno Poppe has lived and worked in Berlin since 1990. He works as a conductor with numerous ensembles for new music, such as the Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, ensemble resonanz, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has been the conductor of the ensemble mosaik since 1998.