CAMILLE, Pépin

Camille Pépin is a French composer and one of the most distinctive voices of her generation. Born in 1990, she studied at the Conservatoire in Amiens and later at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where her teachers and mentors included Guillaume Connesson, Marc-André Dalbavie and Thierry Escaich.
Pépin is particularly known for her orchestral music, in which colour, texture, movement and atmosphere play a central role. Her sound world is often linked to nature, painting, poetry, cosmology and environmental themes, placing her music at the intersection of French orchestral tradition and contemporary musical imagination.
Her works have been performed by major orchestras and ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She has also written for leading performers such as Renaud Capuçon, Yo-Yo Ma and Guillaume Bellom.
Among her important works are Vajrayana, Laniakea, The Sound of Trees, Aether, Inlandsis and Le Sommeil a pris ton empreinte. Pépin has received several major distinctions, including the Sacem Prize for Young Composer in Symphonic Music, the Music Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the Grand Prix Sacem for Symphonic Music, and the title Composer of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2020. In 2022 she was appointed Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Through her vivid orchestral imagination and her exploration of colour, space and natural imagery, Camille Pépin has become one of the leading contemporary French composers.