Internationally Acclaimed Violin Virtuoso Sirena Huang to Perform at Avon Library

The Friends of the Avon Library are pleased to present a special musical event on Sunday March 8, an appearance by world-class violinist, 19-year-old Sirena Huang. An artist whose modest, unassuming demeanor belies an ability to captivate audiences with dazzling virtuosity, she will be performing in the library’s free, popular “Sundays at Three” series of concerts.

Pi-Hsun Shih, a gifted pianist and faculty member of the Hartt School Community Division will accompany Huang. The program will include works by Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven and Wieniawski. Praised by the Hartford Courant as “the first real virtuoso from the text-message age,” Huang was the First Prize Gold Medalist of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Korea in 2009. Two years later, she was the First Prize Winner and recipient of the Audience Award of the 2011 Cooper International Competition as well as the Hahnloser Prize Winner for Violin at the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland.

She has performed in 13 countries across three continents and has been featured as soloist with more than 40 orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, and the Russian Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed as a guest artist at numerous music festival, among them the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Music Festival, Sarasota Arts Series, Albuquerque Chamber Music Festival, and the “Great Music for a Great City” series in New York City.

A native of South Windsor and graduate of the Loomis Chaffee School, Huang is currently a junior at the Juilliard School where she studies violin with Itzhak Perlman and Ms. Sylvia Rosenberg. The audience will have an opportunity to meet Ms. Huang and Ms. Shih following their performance. Light refreshments will be served.