2022 : Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters
2020 : Victoires de la Musique Classique - "Composer of the year"
2018 : Nominated for the "Trente Eclaireurs" Vanity Fair
2017 : Music Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts
2015 : Sacem Prize Symphonic Music "Young Composer"
Born in 1990, Camille Pepin is one of the most successful rising young composers of her generation. At the crossroads of French impressionism and the American repetitive music, her distinctive sound-world finds its inspiration in nature or painting. Her art of color is expressed with as much science of orchestration as poetic imagination.
Her music is regularly played by numerous orchestras (Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national de France, Orchestre national de Lyon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre national d’Île de France) and conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Mikko Franck, Fabien Gabel, Ben Glassberg, Kent Nagano, Daniele Rustioni, Leonard Slatkin, Arie Van Beek and Simone Young.
She won numerous prizes such as the Île de Créations competition and the Sacem’s Prize in 2015, as well as a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2017. The following year, she is one of the 30 Éclaireurs Vanity Fair. In 2020, she is composer of the year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. She is made Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2022. Her first album released by NoMadMusic in 2019 is unanimously praised by the press.
In 2023, Renaud Capuçon premieres her violin concerto with the Orchestre national de France and Simone Young, the Hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt also premieres one of her new works with Alain Altinoglu, and Renaud Capuçon and Guillaume premiere a new work for violin and piano. Her new album "Les Eaux célestes" with the Orchestre national de Lyon & Ben Glassberg released by NoMadMusic is unanimously praised by the press.
After studies at the Amiens Conservatoire, she obtained five first prizes in Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (orchestration, analysis, harmony, counterpoint and fugue & forms). She studied notably with composers such as Guillaume Connesson, Marc-André Dalbavie and Thierry Escaich, drawing from the French line.
Connection to nature is essential for Camille. She also likes cooking, Harry Potter, and her favorite color is blue.