Steinway Society of Massachusetts

CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNERS and their TEACHERS! THE WINNERS CONCERT is on SUNDAY, JUNE 7 at 7 PM at the ALLEN CENTER, 35 Webster Street, Newton, MA. THIS CONCERT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! ALL ARE INVITED! Division I – WINNERS 1st Gold – 103 Elon Du-Chang student of Jeanie Lee 2nd Silver – 104 Brooke Zhang student of Tanya Schwartzman 3rd Bronze – 105 Harvey Wang student of Kanako Nishikawa HM – 101 Freddie Luo student of Mila Filatova HM – 102 Isabelle Ziv student of Ranko Konishi Houston

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