3 December 2025

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Amphi Grand Kursaal

Fabien Waksman

Fabien Waksman is one of the most important French composers of his generation. He has received numerous awards for his work and his career. Winner of the Victoires de la Musique in 2023, he received the André Caplet prize for musical composition from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2011, then the Sacem grand prix for symphonic music the following year in the young composer category. In 2021, he received the René Dumesnil prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2022, he received the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Fabien Waksman has explored a wide range of instrumental formations, from chamber music to large orchestra and opera. His music is performed by leading symphony orchestras and soloists at prestigious festivals. Passionate about the sciences, he regularly collaborates with scientists such as paleontologist Jean-Sébastien Steyer and cosmologist Jean-Philippe Uzan, with whom he has just conceived a saxophone concerto in homage to the conquest of space: A Dream for Artemis. Fabien Waksman teaches harmony at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.

The Call of the Universe

Narrated by astrophysicist Jean-Philippe Uzan and set to music by composer Fabien Waksman, The Call of the Universe recounts the stellar epic of Hor and Nour, two mischievous photons born with the Big Bang. During their journey through the cosmos, they make many friends and discover matter, stars, galaxies, black holes, space-time, then the solar system and finally…