Anne Castex

Anne Castex is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music. Her work develops a musical language attuned to social realities, drawing on personal experience and everyday life to inform her musical thinking.

She has received commissions from Ensemble Multilatérale, INA-GRM, GRAME-CNCM, IRCAM, Radio France for its Création mondiale programme, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Association Toulouse Mélodie Française. Her works have been premiered by performers and ensembles including Aurélie Saraf, the K/D/M Trio, Zubin Kanga, the Antipodes Duo and Ensemble Ulysses. They have been presented at Festival Ensemble(s), the Forum ByPass in Toulouse, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Maison de la Radio, as well as at Festival ManiFest.

In 2025, she received the SACD grant for the creation of works by composers who graduated from the national conservatories of music and dance in Lyon and Paris. She has also received the Prix de la Fondation Salabert.

She studied piano and pursued 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. In 2016, she joined the Toulouse Conservatory to study electroacoustic composition with Bertrand Dubedout. She subsequently continued her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMD de Lyon) with Michele Tadini, earning a Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) in mixed composition in 2022, with Très Bien honours. She also studied with Martin Matalon and Aurélien Dumont, and completed a Master's degree in instrumental composition in 2025, receiving the jury's highest commendation.

In 2026–2027, she followed IRCAM's Composition and Computer Music Programme.

Alongside her compositional work, she is dedicated to music education and has been leading electroacoustic sound-creation workshops for school groups in collaboration with GRAME in Lyon for several years.

Anne was commissioned by the ULYSSES Platform in 2026. Her piece, Vif-creux, was performed by the ULYSSES Ensemble and IEMA-Ensemble in Milan, Paris, Utrecht, Frankfurt and Barcelona.