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Serena Harnack - Musician: Prodigy violinist, singer-songwriter, Berklee College of Music Presidential Scholar, National YoungArts Scholarship winner 2017, 2016

Serena Harnack - Musician
Serena Harnack is an emerging artist on the music scene. As a child prodigy violinist she began Suzuki Violin studies at age 4 at Wheaton College, quickly advancing through the entire Suzuki volumes to be accepted to the studio of world-renowned pedagogues Almita and Roland Vamos at age 11 while at the same time being accepted into the prestigious Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago. At age 12 Serena was Featured Artist on WFMT's Introductions for highly gifted pre-college musicians, as well as being accepted as a member of Chicago Youth in Music orchestra under CSO's maestro Ricardo Muti and famed cellist Yo Yo Ma. While excelling in local and national competitions as a soloist, Serena also won a silver medal as a member of Vox Quartet in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition, as well as 1st Place two consecutive years in the Discover National Chamber Music Competition and Rembrandt Young Artist National Chamber Music Competition. Unlike her contemporaries, while Serena was receiving numerous awards as a Classical musician, she was also fiddling, playing in rock bands, and song-writing. She went on to earn Top College Scholarship recipient by receiving a full four-year scholarship at Berklee College of Music, receiving one of five Presidential Scholarship awards. As a freshman at Berklee, Serena was appointed as concertmaster of both orchestras. She is currently studying at Berklee while recording her original material and keeping an active YouTube presence.