Sylke Zimpel (born 10 September 1959) is a German composer, choral conductor and lecturer.
She then studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with Karl-Rudi Griesbach and Wilfried Krätzschmar until 1983.
She studied further at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, with Jürgen Puschbeck from 1990 to 1993, followed by a year of studies in choral conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon with Nicole Corti-Lyant and Bernard Tétu.
She founded in 1986 the chorbühne TRITONUS (Choral stage tritone), and has conducted its choir.
In 1995, she founded the women's choir called femmes vocales, which she has also conducted.