Sati-Noah Jiménez is a French-Bolivian cellist born in Bolivia who grew up in Brazil and then France. He is currently based in Lyon, France.
He began his musical studies at the Toulouse Regional Conservatory of Music and continued his studies at the Maurice Ravel Municipal Conservatory. After obtaining his Diploma in Musical Studies at the Paris Regional Conservatory, he lived in Germany from 2016 to 2024. He graduated in 2022 from the H.M.T. Hight School Conservatory of Music and Theater in Rostock in the class of Antoaneta Emanuilova. In 2023, he continued his studies in early music on the baroque cello in the class of Professor Jan Freheit at the H.M.T. in Leipzig.
In 2019, he was a cello teacher at the regional conservatory in Greifswald. In 2021, he was appointed as a teacher at the Wolgast-Anklam district music conservatory in 2021 and 2023. In 2024, he was a substitute teacher at the C.M.D Conservatory in Saint-Foy-les-Lyon.
In 2024, Sati Jiménez also joined “Pro’Quartet” with the Wassily string quartet in concerts in various venues for disadvantaged audiences in hospitals, prisons, and nursing homes. He also performed in Germany with Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Rostock. Today, in Lyon, he continues this commitment with the association Résonansemble.
In 2025, he founded the Lyon-based cello ensemble CelloGonne and coordinated the Classic-JAM events. He also devoted himself to chamber music projects, forming duos with a piano or a baroque violin.
Sati Jiménez is the winner of the Ad Infinitum scholarship and was awarded a prize in the Ardian Foundation competition.
In 2014, he won first prize in the Centr’Ensemble chamber music competition in Paris in the string trio category.
Sati Jiménez was a member of the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra until 2019, as an academician, and a member of the Orchestra of the Americas in Washington in 2018.
As a member of various orchestras, he has performed at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Konzerthaus Gendenmarkt in Berlin, the Rusher Hall Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France, the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music in Poland, the Wielki Opera Warschaw in Ukraine, and the Romanian Athenaeum in Romania.
He plays a 1932 Amati Mangenot cello and a bow by Stéphane Müller.