Steinway Society of Massachusetts

JULIA ZHOU Julia Zhou is a senior at Acton Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and is an incoming freshman at Harvard University. She began playing piano at age 5. She currently studies with Dr. Christina Dietrich at Groton Hill Music School and has studied with Ms. Niva Fried and Mr. Ronald Kmiec in the past. She also began playing violin at age 4 and now studies with Xue Chen. Julia is a five-time 1st prize winner of the MMTA Bay State competition, four-time 1st prize winner of the Sally Chapin competition, and 1st prize recipient of the Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition. She

JUDGES FOR THE FINAL ROUND OF THE 2026 COMPETITION MAX LEVINSON Pianist Max Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless  technique. His international career was launched when he won First Prize at the Dublin  International Piano Competition. He is also recipient of other prestigious prizes including  the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Award. He has performed as soloist  with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San  Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon  Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Utah  Symphony, Boston Pops, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and

THE WINNERS CONCERT is on SUNDAY, JUNE 7 at 7 PM at the ALLEN CENTER, 35 Webster Street, Newton, MA. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! ALL ARE INVITED!! CONGRATULATIONS to the FINALISTS and their TEACHERS! The FINAL ROUND of the Competition will be held on Saturday, June 6 in Concert Format. SCHEDULE FOR FINAL ROUND TBA. Division I 102  Brooke Zhang student of Tanya Schwartzman 103  Isabelle Ziv student of Ranko Konishi-Houston 104  Harvey Wang student of Kanako Nishikawa 106 Elon Du-Chang student of Jeanie Lee 108 Freddie Luo student of Mila Filatova Division II 202 Julian Tushman student of Sandra Hebert 206 Alexander Mikhailov student