Artists x Instruments

Sarah Jégou-Sageman
Violin

Sarah Jégou-Sageman, born in France in 1998, studied violin from 2006 to 2013 at the Conservatoire Régional in Paris with Prof. Larissa Kolos and from 2015 at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse with Boris Garlistsky and Philippe Graffin. She completed her master's degree in 2019. She also studied literature at the Sorbonne University, Paris from 2013 to 2015.

Sarah Jégou-Sageman has been studying at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin since 2019. She played concerts with Caroline Sageman in Berlin and Paris and attended master classes by Daniel Barenboim, among others. She also performed with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Boulez Ensemble under the direction of Daniel Barenboim and Francois-Xavier Roth. 

In 2017 she won first prize at the Concours International Léopold-Bellan in Paris and second prize at the Ginette Neveu Competition. Sarah Jéjou-Sageman plays a violin by Joseph Hell, made possible by the Musique et vin au Clos Vougeot Foundation.

Since October 2022 she has been a student at the Kronberg Academy Professional Studies with Mihaela Martin. The course is made possible by the Bubmann/Rühland patronage.

Sarah Jégou-Sageman plays a very fine violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1844, crafted after the “Alard” by Antonio Stradivari—a generous loan by a member of the Stretton Society.