Biography
Katharina Morin, née Poppe, is a German orchestra and choir conductor, living in Munich.
Current
In the 2024/2025 season, the young conductor will have engagements with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence, the Paris Mozart Orchestre, the Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Orquestra Simfònica De Les Illes Balears and the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. Furthermore she will assist Robin Ticciati with the Orchestre de Paris and GMD Georg Fritzsch at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in a new production of Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier.
Starting October 2024, she is studying at the HMT Munich in the orchestra conducting master’s degree program.
Competitions - Scholarships - Assistances
Katharina Morin won third prize and the Génération Opéra prize in the international conducting competition LA MAESTRA 2024. In October 2024, she won the Deutscher Preis für Chordirigieren, featuring RIAS Kammerchor.
Morin was a scholarship holder and assistant conductor of GMD Daniel Huppert with the Bergische Symphoniker in the season of 2023/2024. She also has been awarded the prestigious German Forum Dirigieren scholarship, the only student to receive the scholarship for both orchestra and choir conducting. In Forum Dirigieren masterclasses, she received important impulses from Peter Dijkstra, Florian Helgath and Nicolas Fink and has worked with the renowned WDR Rundfunkchor, the Chorwerk Ruhr, the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin and the Stuttgart opera choir. Assistantships took her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin (2023) and the Staatstheater Darmstadt (2022).
Studies and early musical education
The young conductor grew up in a musical family and received her first cello lessons at the age of eight. She discovered her love for symphonic music in her youth when she played in various youth orchestras.
After having finished her music studies with the aim of becoming a high school teacher, she next completed choral conducting studies at the Munich University of Music and Theater (HMT) with Andreas Herrmann and Michael Gläser. She then went on to obtain her bachelor's degree in orchestral conducting with Marcus Bosch and Georg Fritzsch. In the course of her orchestra conducting studies, she has already worked with the Münchner Kammerorchester (MKO), the Münchner Sinfoniker, the Gärtnerplatztheater, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the Nürnberger Sinfoniker, the Staatstheater Augsburg, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker and many more.
Since historically informed performance practice is very important to her, she attended master classes with Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble as well as interpretation seminars with Kai Köpp.