Anne Castex

Anne Castex, born in 1993 in the south of France, is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music. She studied piano and completed a master’s degree in musicology at the Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, during which she became interested in contemporary music and the creative process. She then began a course in instrumental and electroacoustic composition at the Toulouse Conservatory in the class of Bertrand Dubedout.

She is currently studying at the CNSMD in Lyon and in 2022 she obtained her DNSPM with distinction in composition (mixed music) in the class of Michele Tadini. As part of her master’s degree, she studied instrumental composition with composers Martin Matalon, Daniel D’Adamo and Aurélien Dumont.

She is a prizewinner at the Academie ManiFeste – IRCAM and at the Luxembourg Composition Academy with the ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin and composers Philippe Leroux and Elena Mendoza. She has received commissions from the Ensemble Multilatérale, Ina-GRM and Radio France (programme Création mondiale). Her works have been performed at the MANCA festival (Nice), the ByPass Forum, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Maison de Radio-France.
She is a scholarship holder of the Société Générale C’est vous l’avenir Fondation for the year 2024/2025.