Un tour volé au sablier des Vanités 

World Premiere: 22 June 2025, Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Instrumentation: Picc/Fl, Cl/BCl, Tpt, Trb, Hp, Pf solo, Vln Vla, Vc, Db

Duration: 10 minutes

A new work by French composer Anne Castex for our Constellations concert in collaboration with French ensemble L’Instant Donné. 

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Anne Castex, born in 1993 in southern France, is a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed music.

Presently a student in composition at the CNSMD Lyon, she began studying composition in 2016 at the conservatory of Toulouse in the acousmatic music class of Bertrand Dubedout.

Castex first got into acousmatic music simply out of curiosity, but it quickly developed into a real passion. Since then, she has also explored mixed and instrumental music, broadening her musical language.

https://soundcloud.com/anne_castex