Francine Aubin

Francine Aubin (6 February 1938 – 14 August 2016) 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. 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. 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.” Solo and chamber music * 12 Études-caprices pour clarinette * Ainsi racontent les nuages: saxophone alto mi bémol et piano * Amulettes et grigris: percussion et piano * Aq