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Laurel Harned (born 2006 in Redlands, California) is an American classical guitarist and winner of the 2024 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, one of the most distinguished honours for pre-college performing artists in the United States. She began guitar at nine under Susan Graves and continued with Jack Sanders, and has since studied with Ana Vidović, Los Romeros, the Beijing Guitar Duo, Jason Vieaux and Goran Krivokapić.
In October 2023 Harned was one of only six young players worldwide invited to Manuel Barrueco’s Pre-College Guitar Virtuosos masterclass at the Peabody Conservatory, and in 2024 her Jack Kent Cooke award funded travel to Spain and the Volterra Project in Italy, an international festival for talented young musicians. She has been featured on NPR’s “From the Top.”
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