December 19, 2012
The 2013 Montecito International Music Festival application is now available here!

December 17, 2012
President of Curtis Institute, Roberto Diaz, will be giving a special presentation on Curtis Institute, discussing the audition processes, artistry of music, and more. He will also be engaging in a Q&A with the parents and students, so don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity!

December 3, 2012
Website now updated with new faculty. Dates have been set for the 2013 Montecito International Music Festival!

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Summer Session: July 15 - August 3, 2013

Application Deadline: March 15, 2013

Scholarship Application Deadline: March 1, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: April 5, 2013

Deposit Due: April 15, 2013

Tuition Balance Due: May 15, 2013

2013 Season Application - Now available here!

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    Sirena Huang - violin


    Praised by Hartford Courant as “the first real virtuoso from the text-message age,” Sirena Huang is the First Prize Gold Medalist of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Korea in 2009 and more recently the First Prize Winner and recipient of the Audience Award of the 2011 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition.  In the summer of 2011, Huang was awarded the Hannloser Prize for violin at the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland.  Huang made her orchestra solo debut with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at age nine. Since then, she has performed in 12 countries across three continents and has been featured as soloist with more than 40 various orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, Russian Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra and many others. In 2008, after winning the AMFS Violin Concerto Competition, she made her Aspen concerto debut with Aspen Sinfonia. In 2010, Sirena received acclaimed review for her performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun praised her “substantial tone, mostly impeccable technique and a remarkable amount of deeply expressive phrasing,” and wrote that “Huang's performance revealed considerable personality and poetic weight.”

    Since 2003, Huang has been selected three times as the youngest of ten "Exceptional Young Artists" worldwide at the “Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Study” at Juilliard School. Additionally, Huang was invited by Elie Wiesel to perform during the ceremony in which the annual Humanitarian Award was presented to President Sarkozy of France. In June 2006, she received the honor of playing for His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan and thirty other Nobel Prize Laureates at the World Peace Conference held in Petra. Since 2011, Huang was appointed as the first Artist-in-Residence of Hartford Symphony Orchestra till 2014. 
    Huang began her violin lessons at 4 years old and is currently a scholarship student at the Juilliard School Pre-College division, studying with Mr. Stephen Clapp and Ms. Sylvia Rosenberg.

     
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