Katharina Morin, née Poppe, born 1994, is a German orchestra and choir conductor living in Munich.

In the 2024/2025 season, the young conductor has engagements with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence, the Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the Orquestra Simfònica De Les Illes Balears, the ensemble reflector, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen and the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. Additionally, 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.

Morin won third Prize and the Génération Opéra Prize in the international conducting competition La Maestra 2024. Furthermore, she placed first in the Deutscher Preis für Chordirigieren featuring RIAS Kammerchor in October 2024. As a dual scholarship holder of the prestigious German Forum Dirigieren – in the choir and orchestra conducting categories – she has worked with the renowned WDR Rundfunkchor, the Chorwerk Ruhr, the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin, and the opera choir Stuttgart. Assistanceships have led her to the Darmstadt Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

On top of her completed choir conducting studies, Katharina Morin is currently enrolled in the orchestra conducting class of Prof. Marcus Bosch and Prof. Georg Fritzsch at HMT Munich, for a Master’s degree. Since historically informed performance practice is very dear to her, she attended master classes with Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble as well as interpretation seminars with Kai Köpp.