MOHAMED HIBER

“A precocious and bright musician with an exceptional musical gift, Mohamed Hiber is a very talented
violinist.” (Le Figaro, Paris).
Born in Pantin near Paris in 1995, Mohamed Hiber is a distinctive soloist, but also an enthusiastic
chamber music player and sought-after concertmaster. He has a close and long-standing collaboration
with two of the world’s greatest artists, Daniel Barenboim and Anne-Sophie Mutter. As Concertmaster
of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and of the Virtuosi Ensemble
conducted by the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, he has been also a fellow of the Anne-Sophie Mutter
Foundation.
He is invited as guest Concertmaster on a regular basis by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris.
He regularly collaborates with renowned conductors ranging from Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Klaus
Mäkelä, András Schiff and Neeme Järvi.
Mohamed Hiber has performed as a soloist with the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonie
Südwestfalen, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, the Danubian Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of
Wallonia, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Gstaad Festival
Orchestra.
He regularly collaborates with famous conductors ranging from Nabil Shehata and Marie Jacquot,
Frank Braley and Robert Farkas to András Schiff and Neeme Järvi.
As a recitalist and keen chamber musician, Mohamed Hiber frequently collaborates with Daniel
Barenboim, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Elena Bashkirova, Yuri Bashmet, Gautier Capuçon, Martha Argerich,
Frank Braley, Khatia Buniatishvili, Gérard Caussé, Gareth Lubbe, Kian Soltani, Daishin Kashimoto,
Maxim Rysanov, Mihaela Martin, Frans Helmerson, François Leleux, Nabil Shehata, Boris Brovtsyn,
Claudio Bohorquez, Itamar Golan, Jens Peter Mainz, Frédéric Guy, Alexandre Tharaud, Amihai Grosz,
Edgar Moreau, Pascal Moragues.
With these musicians, Mohamed Hiber performs regularly in the world’s most important chamber
music series, such as the Lucerne and the Gstaad Festival, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Intonations
Festival in Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the
Maïklange Festival in Verden, the Rolandseck Festival, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art chamber
music series in Denmark and the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence.
Mohamed Hiber studied the violin with Ana Chumachenco in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Música
Reina Sofía and then in Munich Music Academy.
Mohamed Hiber currently plays one of the most outstanding violins made by the great Giovanni
Battista Guadagnini – the “Ex Lidka”, Turin 1780, on generous loan from a member of the Stretton
Society. M. Hiber plays a bow made by Jacob Eury on generous loan by a sponsor, Walter Schatt.