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Sirena Huang

Sirena Huang
Sirena Huang

Praised by The Baltimore Sun for her “impeccable technique…deeply expressive phrasing…personality and poetic weight," Sirena Huang made her solo debut with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. Since then, she has performed in fifteen countries across three continents, and has been featured as a soloist with more than forty orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, and Russian Symphony Orchestra.  

Huang is the First Prize Gold Medalist of the 6th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. In 2011, she won First Prize and the Audience Award at the Cooper International Competition. That year, she was also named the first Artist-in-Residence of Hartford Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, she was awarded the Hannloser Prize for Violin at Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland. More recently, she was awarded Third Prize at the 2015 Singapore International Violin Competition and Third Prize at the 2016 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.  

Huang has been selected three times as one of ten "Exceptional Young Artists" worldwide at the “Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Study” at Juilliard School. In 2006, she received the honor of playing for His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan and thirty Nobel Prize Laureates at the World Peace Conference held in Petra. In 2007, under the invitation of former Czech Republic President Havel, she played in the Opening Ceremony of “Forum 2000 World Conference” in Prague. In 2008, she was invited to perform during the ceremony in which the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity presented its Humanitarian Award to President Sarkozy of France. 

She has been featured as a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Verbier Music Festival, Ravinia Music Festival, Sarasota Arts Series, Albuquerque Chamber Music Festival, “The Great Music for a Great City” series in New York City, and many others.