Space Art Grand Prix 2025

Camille Pépin, a French composer, develops an orchestral style inspired by cosmic phenomena and major discoveries in contemporary astrophysics. Her music explores textures, sound masses, and orchestral colors to convey the immensity, mystery, and poetry of Space.

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Camille Pépin, a French composer, develops an orchestral style inspired by cosmic phenomena and major discoveries in contemporary astrophysics. Her music explores textures, sound masses, and orchestral colors to convey the immensity, mystery, and poetry of Space.

Camille Pépin develops a compositional practice nourished by a constant dialogue between science and imagination. Through her orchestral works, she seeks to make invisible realities perceptible, to evoke the dizzying scale of the universe, and to convey the power of celestial phenomena.

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Laniakea, un œuvre spatiale

Awarded for Laniakea, a work for large orchestra, she drew inspiration from the discovery of the galaxy supercluster of the same name, identified in 2014 by the Lyon-based astrophysicist Hélène Courtois. The music unfolds vast sonic trajectories, forces of attraction, and states of tension, translating into sound the ever-shifting cartography of the cosmos.

This work is recorded on the monographic album Les Eaux célestes, which brings together five orchestral compositions inspired by Space—its colors, its energies, and the phenomena that traverse it. Released in April 2023, the album is performed by the Orchestre national de Lyon under the direction of conductor Ben Glassberg.

At 34 years old, Camille Pépin is today one of the most prominent French composers of her generation. Her works are performed by numerous orchestras in France and internationally. Alongside her compositional work, she develops a reflection on the connections between music, science, and perception, situating her writing within a decidedly contemporary approach.

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