Anne Castex
Anne Castex (born in 1993) is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and mixed music. She develops a language attuned to social realities, drawing on personal experience and everyday life to nourish her musical thinking.
Her works have been performed at the Festival Ensemble(s), the Forum ByPass (Toulouse), the Philharmonie de Paris, and Maison de la Radio. She has been a laureate of the ManiFeste Academy (Ircam) and the Luxembourg Composition Academy with United Instruments of Lucilin, and has received commissions from Ensemble Multilatérale, Ina-GRM, GRAME-CNCM, Radio France (Création Mondiale), as well as the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. In 2025, she is also part of the Legato Academy, an international programme led by Festival Ensemble(s), SoundFestival (Scotland), New Music Dublin, and the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland).
She first studied piano and completed a Master’s degree in Musicology at the University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, where she developed an interest in contemporary music and creative processes. She then studied composition at the Conservatoire of Toulouse with Bertrand Dubedout, before entering the CNSMD Lyon in the class of Michele Tadini. She also worked with Martin Matalon and Aurélien Dumont, and graduated in 2025 with a Master’s degree in Composition awarded with highest honors.
Alongside her work as a composer, she is actively involved in educational projects, leading electroacoustic creation workshops for school audiences in collaboration with GRAME in Lyon. She is a 2024/2025 laureate of the Fondation Société Générale – C’est vous l’avenir.
Photograph by Aude Paget © INA
