“From the very first note of the recording I was taken away. This year, for the opening concert at the Salle des Combins, she will be performing, for the first time, Rodion Shchedrin’s lively Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra with conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Twice a student at the Academy, in 20, she is no stranger to the Verbier Festival, to which she owes part of her development as a musician. In addition to her TED Talk in 2006, Sirena has been featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including WQXR’s McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase, and NPR’s “From the Top" as well as several interviews with WNPR, CNBC, WTNH, WTIC, WB20 and Beethoven Radio.As the daughter of emeritus piano professors, Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova was plunged into the pianistic world at a very early age. She has appeared at the World Peace Conference held in Petra and at the Opening Ceremony of the “Forum 2000 World Conference” in Prague, among others. Motivated by a deep wish to inspire peace and harmony with her music, Sirena has performed before world leaders, thinkers and humanitarians.
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She has appeared as a guest artist at the Verbier Music Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Music in the Mountains Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Sarasota Arts Series, “The Great Music for a Great City” series in New York City, and many others. She has performed in leading venues, including Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Kravis Center, Esplanade -Theaters on the Bay, Shanghai Concert Hall, and the Taiwan National Concert Hall, among many others. She has been featured as a soloist with more than fifty prestigious ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany. Sirena made her solo debut with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2004 at the age of nine and has performed in twenty countries across three continents. She is also a top prize winner at Singapore International Violin Competition as well as the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. In 2013, she was awarded the Hannloser Prize for Violin at the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland.
That same year, she was also named the first Artist-in-Residence of Hartford Symphony Orchestra. She won First Prize and the Audience Award at the Cooper International Competition in 2011. In 2009, she won First Prize Gold Medalist of the 6th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. In 2017, she was awarded First Prize at the Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition and later that year, she was the winner of the New York Concert Artist Worldwide Debut Audition. Sirena has been the recipient of numerous accolades and awards. She brings not only technical brilliance and powerful artistry to the stage, but also a profound sense of connection to her audience. Praised by The Baltimore Sun for her “impeccable technique…deeply expressive phrasing…and poetic weight," Sirena Huang is one of her generation’s most celebrated violinists.
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