Sirena Huang

Place: New Jersey

Born: 1994

Biography:

Sirena Huang is an American concert violinist born on May 18, 1994, in New Jersey, United States. She started her violin lessons at the age of four with Linda Fiore at the Hartt School. Later, she also studied violin with Ian Pang at his home in Avon, Connecticut. She was also a scholarship student studying with Stephen Clapp and Sylvia Rosenberg at Juilliard School Pre-College division. In the summers of 2003 through 2007, Huang attended the Encore School for Strings and studied under David Cerone at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She was appointed as the first Artist-in-Residence of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in 2011. Huang has received numerous awards, including First Prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, First Prize at the Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, First Place at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and Third Place at the Singapore International Violin Competition and the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. She has performed with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Sylvia Rosenberg.