Sindy Mohamed

viola

2017–2020
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies Studies with Tabea Zimmermann funded by the Stachels/Mock Scholarship
2018
Chamber Music Connects the World, junior
2019
Mit Musik - Miteinander, tutor
2019
Kronberg Festival, concert
2023
Mit Musik - Miteinander, tutor
2023
Chamber Music Connects the World

The French-Egyptian violist Sindy Mohamed is one of the most promising young musicians of her generation.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Sindy Mohamed is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Moritzburg Festival, the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Kronberg Festival, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Folles Journées de Nantes. Her chamber music partners include artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Isabelle Faust, Lawrence Power, Jan Vogler, Maximillian Hornung, Kian Soltani, Yura Lee, Adrien La Marca, Alexander Sitkovetsky, and Marc Bouchkov. In recent seasons, Sindy has performed regularly with harpist Anaïs Gaudemard, flutist Joséphine Olech and violinist Michael Barenboim. Sindy as part of "Chamber Music Connects the World", an event of the Kronberg Academy, performed with world stars such as Steven Isserlis, Christian Tetzlaff, and Gidon Kremer.

Highlights included her debuts with the Heidelberger Sinfoniker under the baton of Johannes Klumpp and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ahmed El Saedi. Further concerts took her to the Mannheimer Schlosskonzerte with Pēteris Vasks' Viola Concerto and to the Berlioz Festival with the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, where she played Berlioz's "Harold en Italie". Sindy also made her debut at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and performed a solo recital at the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival.

A prizewinner of the 2017 Anton Rubinstein International Competition and a scholarship recipient of the Ottilie Selbach Redslob Foundation, she performed as a soloist in England with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Lars Vogt as part of the New Year New Artists Festival. Rolando Villazón invited her to appear in the ARTE broadcast "Stars of Tomorrow".

Sindy Mohamed was born in Marseille in 1992. Although she does not come from a musical family, she received her first viola lessons at the age of eight and decided early on to make music her profession. After graduating from the Conservatoire de Marseille, Sindy continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music. 

She further sharpened her musical profile through her participation in numerous international masterclasses and festival academies such as the Summer Festival Salzburg, the Seiji Ozawa International Switzerland Academy, and the European Chamber Music Academy. There she worked with Daniel Barenboim, Antoine Tamestit, Roberto Diaz, Morten Carlsen, Nobuko Imai, Jean Sulem, Sadao Harada, Pamela Frank and Tatjana Masurenko, among others. Sindy has been a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim since 2013.

Sindy Mohamed plays a fine Matteo Goffriller viola kindly loaned to her by the Miller-Porter Collection (the Venetian instrument collaboration project of Irene R. Miller and John Porter Foundation) through the Beare’s International Violin Society.

From 2017 to 2020, Sindy Mohamed has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Tabea Zimmermann. These studies were funded by the Stachels/Mock Scholarship.


Last updated: January 2024
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Mit Musik Miteinander

ÖFFENTLICHE PROBEN

Mohamed, Okamoto, Roozeman, workshop participants

Participants

  • Seiji Okamoto violin
  • Sindy Mohamed viola
  • Jonathan Roozeman cello
  • Workshop participants

Programme

The programme and times will be announced at a later date.

Admission free. No reservation required.

 

Subject to change.

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Mit Musik Miteinander

WERKSTATTKONZERT

Mohamed, Okamoto, Roozeman, Teilnehmende des Workshops

Participants

  • Seiji Okamoto violin
  • Sindy Mohamed viola
  • Jonathan Roozeman cello
  • Workshop participants

Programme

The programme will be announced at a later date.

Free admission for pupils and students up to the age of 27.

*Price without discount

Tickets
15 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Chamber Music Festival - K4

FRANKREICH

Abdelmoula, Duval, Jégou-Sageman, Johanns, Kloeckner, Lipman, Mohamed, Navon, Schwabe, Soulez-Larivière, Verherve, Winker

Participants

  • Francoise Verherve
  • Stephanie Winker
  • Thorsten Johanns clarinet
  • Sarah Jégou-Sageman violin
  • Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
  • Gabriel Schwabe Cello
  • Matthew Lipman viola
  • Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
  • Itai Navon piano
  • Irène Duval violin
  • Sindy Mohamed viola
  • Benedict Kloeckner Cello

Programme

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
• Introduction et Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet (1905) – approx. 11' 

Francoise Verherve, harp 
Stephanie Winker, flute 
Thorsten Johanns, clarinet 
Sarah Jégou-Jageman, violin 
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin 
Matthew Lipman, viola 
Gabriel Schwabe, cello

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp – approx. 16' 
I. Pastorale: Lento, dolce rubato 
II. Interlude: Tempo di minuetto 
III. Finale: Allegro moderato ma risoluto

Stephanie Winker, flute 
Matthew Lipman, viola 
Francoise Verherve, harp

Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Scaramouche, Op. 165b (version for clarinet and piano) – approx. 10' 
I. Vif 
II. Modéré 
III. Brazileira (Mouvement de Samba)

Thorsten Johanns, clarinet 
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano

INTERMISSION

Erik Satie (1866–1925)
• Gnossienne No. 1 for solo piano – approx. 3' 

Itai Navon, piano

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
• Piano Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 41 – approx. 31' 
I. Allegretto 
II. Andante maestoso ma con moto 
III. Poco allegro più tosto moderato 
IV. Allegro

Irène Duval, violin 
Sindy Mohamed, viola 
Benedict Kloeckner, cello 
Itai Navon, piano

 

Programme subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Chamber Music Festival - K5

RUSSLAND

Abdelmoula, Hamos, Kim, Kuyumcuyan, Mohamed, Oe, Schwabe, Soulez-Larivière, Thiele

Participants

  • Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
  • Kaoru Oe violin
  • Sindy Mohamed viola
  • Gabriel Schwabe Cello
  • Julia Hamos piano
  • Emil Kuyumcuyan
  • Suyoen Kim violin
  • Friedrich Thiele Cello
  • Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
• String Quartet No. 1 (unfinished), TH ii/30 – approx. 13' 
II. Romance: Andante espressivo (G minor) 
III. Scherzo: Allegro (D major)

Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin 
Kaoru Oe, violin 
Sindy Mohamed, viola 
Gabriel Schwabe, cello

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) / arr. Oriol Cruixent
• Suite for Variety Orchestra (“Jazz Suite No. 2”) – for piano trio & 3 percussionists – approx. 25' 

Julia Hamos, piano 
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin 
Gabriel Schwabe, cello 
Emil Kuyumcuyan, percussion 
N.N., percussion

INTERMISSION

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
• Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 “À la mémoire d’un grand artiste” – approx. 50' 
I. Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai – Allegro giusto 
II. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto 
– Finale e coda: Allegro risoluto e con fuoco

Suyeon Kim, violin 
Friedrich Thiele, cello 
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano

 

Programme subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Chamber Music Festival - K7

NORWEGEN

Duval, Fritsch, Hemsing, Jégou-Sageman, Kim, Mohamed, Moreau, Navon, Oe, Soulez-Larivière, Thiele, Xu

Participants

  • Ragnhild Hemsing
  • Edgar Moreau Cello
  • Itai Navon piano
  • Kaoru Oe violin
  • Sindy Mohamed viola
  • Suyoen Kim violin
  • Irène Duval violin
  • Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
  • Peijun Xu viola
  • Sebastian Fritsch Cello
  • Friedrich Thiele Cello

Programme

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
• Andante in C minor for Piano Trio – approx. 11' 

Ragnhild Hemsing, violin 
Edgar Moreau, cello 
Itai Navon, piano

Ragnhild Hemsing (*1988)
Vetra – Chamber Suite based on Norwegian folk melodies for Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian folk fiddle) and strings

Ragnhild Hemsing, Hardanger fiddle 
Kaoru Oe, violin 
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, violin 
Sindy Mohamed, viola 
Edgar Moreau, cello 
N.N., bass

INTERVAL

Johan Svendsen (1840–1911)
• String Octet in A major, Op. 3 – approx. 38' 
I. Allegro risoluto ben marcato 
II. Allegro scherzoso 
III. Andante sostenuto 
IV. Finale: Moderato – Allegro assai con fuoco

Suyeon Kim, violin 
Irène Duval, violin 
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin 
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, violin 
Sindy Mohamed, viola 
Peijun Xu, viola 
Sebastian Fritsch, cello 
Friedrich Thiele, cello

 

Program subject to change