Francine Aubin
Francine Aubin was a French composer, educator, conductor, and painter. She is most remembered for her variety of music for wind instruments.
Life
Francine Aubin was born on 6 February 1938, in Paris to Richard Tremblot de la Croix and Marie-Thérèse Mauchauffée, the youngest of their five children. Her birth name was Francine Agnès Gisèle Marie-Thérèse Tremblot de la Croix. She began her musical studies at the Troyes Conservatory, taking classes in harmony, flute, piano, and music theory. Aubin continued her education at the Paris Conservatory, where she studied composition with Tony Aubin, whom she would later marry. In 1958, Francine earned the conservatory's first prize in composition. She continued on to win both the Grand Prize in composition at the Divonne-les-Bains International Competition and the first prize for piano improvisation at the Lyon International Competition.In 1969, she became the first woman to earn a Certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions de directeur de conservatoire from the conservatory.
Amongst her achievements, Aubin became the director of the municipal conservatory of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, and in 1989 began her tenure as the director of the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory and its associated symphony orchestra. Between 1970 and 1973, she took a pause from composing music to focus on her painting, which was often in a pointillist style. Aubin exhibited under the name "Tremblot de la Croix" or sometimes even just "Tremblot."
Aubin died on 14 August 2016.
Selected works
Source:Solo and chamber music
12 ''Études-caprices pour clarinetteAinsi racontent les nuages: saxophone alto mi bémol et pianoAmulettes et grigris: percussion et pianoAquarelles: pour flûte et pianoBallade du gitan for bassoon and pianoBerceuse pour Olivier: flûte ou hautbois et pianoChanson dans la rue: pour saxophone alto mi♭ et pianoConcerto pour saxophone alto et pianoConcerto pour tuba et pianoConcerto pour violoncello et pianoDeux pièces en forme de jazz: pour clarinette si♭ et pianoL'amour espiègle, pour 8 cors''Works for orchestra
Concerto: clarinette sib et orchestre à cordesConcerto Pour Ariane for double bass and orchestraConcerto pour cor et orchestre à cordesConcerto pour orgue et orchestreSymphonie AllégoriqueSymphonie de l'EspoirSymphonie juive- ''Symphonie Kiev''