Sirena Huang

[4] 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.

In March 2005, she played her solo recital at Bushnell Center to benefit Fund for Access, a scholarship program for the Hartt School of Music.

[7] Since 2003, 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.

Huang was also the highlight performer at the inaugural Wealth & Giving Forum gathering in October 2004 at the Greenbrier resort, an event attended by philanthropists Kenneth Behring and Vartan Gregorian, Elie Wiesel, and Fareed Zakaria.

In June 2006, she performed before His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan and thirty other Nobel Prize Laureates—including Elie Wiesel—at the World Peace Conference held in Petra.

In October 2007, under the invitation of former Czech Republic President Havel, she played in the Opening Ceremony of “Forum 2000 World Conference” in Prague.

At age 10, she was second place in the triennial International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists held in Germany, and in addition was awarded the Special Prize of "Best Bach Interpretation".

In 2009, Huang was awarded the First Prize Gold Medal and title of Laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.