Arts, Tilles Center, Kimmel Center, Severance Hall, Esplanade Concert Hall, National Concert Hall (Taiwan), among many others. 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. In 2006, she appeared on TED. Awards and recognition 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 performed during the ceremony in which the annual Humanitarian Award was presented to President Sarkozy of France. 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. In December 2003, she was First Prize winner in the junior division of the “Remember Enescu” International Violin Competition in Romania. 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 the United States, she won The Juilliard School Pre-College Concerto Competition at age of nine as well as a Grand Prize of the New Haven Symphony Young Artist Competition in Connecticut. In September 2006, she received Third Prize in the Wieniawski International Competition for Young Violinists held in Lublin, Poland. In the summer of 2008, she won First Prize at the Aspen Music Festival Violin Competition. In 2009, Huang was awarded the First Prize Gold Medal and title of Laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. In 2011 she received First Prize and the Audience Award at the 2011 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition. In the summer of 2011, she was also awarded the Bernard and Mania Hahnloser Prize for Violin at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. In 2015, she won third prize at the Singapore International Violin Competition. In 2016, she also won third prize at the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. In February 2017, Sirena was