Sidonie Bougamont studied from the age of 14 at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London and then at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also studied at the Conservatoire National de Paris.

She is a laureate of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition and the Yehudi-Menuhin Competition, which have earned her numerous invitations in Europe, notably at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Wigmore Hall in London, the Gstaad Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Radio France Festival.

She plays in trio with the Ensemble Amedeo, which has been a prominent part of the ARD International Competition in Munich, and has been a member of the Geneva Quartet for several years.

Sidonie Bougamont was concertmaster of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra and joined the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 2006, where she has been the second violin conductor since January 2008.