Theodore Teng
2019 Steinway Society of Massachusetts Young Artist of the Year
Student of A. Ramon Rivera
Division 1 Winners
Adam Li
First Prize – Division I
Student of Gregg Pauley
Ziling Yin
Second Prize – Division I
Student of Yidan Guo
Eunha Basu
Third Prize – Division I
Student of Niva Fried
Grace Chen
Third Prize – Division I
Student of Hui Min Wang
Division 2 Winners
Henry Tushman
First Prize – Division II
Student of Sandra Hebert
Benjamin Shaar
Second Prize – Division II
Student of Nilly Shilo
Emily Zhou
Second Prize – Division II
Student of Niva Fried
Madeline Jiang
Honorable Mention – Division II
Student of Lu Lu
Norman Lu
Third Prize – Division II
Student of Dorothy Shi
Neil Nori
Honorable Mention – Division II
Student of Natalia Harlap
Roxane Park
Honorable Mention – Division II
Student of Mila Filatova
Division 3 Winners
Kyle Chen
Second Prize – Division III
Student of Niva Fried
James Kim
Second Prize – Division III
Student of Max Levinson
Logan Sherwin
Third Prize – Division III
Student of Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome
Yinuo Wang
Honorable Mention – Division III
Student of Ya-Fei Chuang
Elizabeth Zhang
Honorable Mention – Division III
Student of Natalia Harlap
Hyuntae Choi
Honorable Mention – Division III
Student of Heng-Jin Park
Division 1 (Ages 9 and under)
1st Prize: Chloe Tan, student of Gregg Pauley
2nd Prize: Laetitia Ji, student of Natalia Harlap
3rd Prize: Ian Lin, student of Tanya Schwartzman
Honorable Mention:
Eunha Basu, student of Niva Fried
Norman Lu, student of Simon Xu
Claire Tong, student of Natalia Harlap
Eric Feng, student of Niva Fried
Division 2 (Ages 10 to 13)
1st Prize: Maxine Park, student of Mila Filatova
2nd Prize: Roxane Park, student of Mila Filatova
3rd Prize: Logan Sherwin, student of Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome and Julia Zhou, student of Ronald Kmiec
Honorable Mention (in the following order):
1. Michael Karshis, student of Tanya Schwartzman
2. Natsuka Hayashida, student of Elizabeth Skavish
3. Selena Liu, student of Niva Fried
4. Bingye Ren, student of Rita Mikulinsky
Division 3 (Ages 14-18)
First Prize: Niklas Kniesche, student of Jonathan Bass
Second Prize: Kyle Chen, student of Niva Fried and Stephen Wang, student of Mila Filatova
Third Prize: Meghan Tan, student of Natalia Harlap and Justin Gu, student of Niva Fried
Honorable mention:
Justin Veira, student of Jonathan Bass
Tomer Nuriyev, student of Tanya Schwartzman
Nathan Emans, student of Sergey Schepkin
James Kim, student of Max Levinson
Jane Hwang, student of Pavel Nersesiyan
Theodore Teng, student of A. Ramon Rivera
Justin Wang, student of Helena Vesterman
Shangyi Zhu, student of Jianyun Sun
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Division 1 (Grades 3-4)
1st Prize: Justin Yamaguchi
2nd Prize: Gavin Valentino, Eric Zhu
3rd Prize: Emily Zhou, Alexis Chen, Marena Chen
Honorable Mention:
Collins Maguire
Nathaniel Su
Christina Xi
Emily Youm
Division 2 (Grades 5-6)
1st Prize: Natalie Zhang
2nd Prize: Michael P. Karshis, Justin Wang
3rd Prize (tie): Patrick Lu, Theo Teng
Honorable Mention:
Camelia Foroohar
Gaeun Lee
Sara Tardif
Division 3 (Grades 7-8)
1st Prize: Kyle Chen
2nd Prize: Tomer Nuriyev
3rd Prize: Justin Gu
Honorable Mention:
Emily Huang
Timothy Labounko
Alessandra Mariano
Division 4 (Grades 9-10)
1st Prize: Hannah Ryu
2nd Prize: Raquel Fisk, Karen Ji
3rd Prize: Niklas Kniesche, Avik Sarkar
Division 5 (Grades 11-12)
1st Prize: Kevin Chen
2nd Prize: Fernando J. Lopez, Amir Siraj
3rd Prize: George Hu
Division 1 (Grades 3-4)
1st Prize: Patrick Lu
2nd Prize: Annie Dai
3rd Prize: Natalie Yuan Zhang
Honorable Mention:
Ashley Xu
Christopher David Tillen
Christina Xi
Sara Tardif
Division 2 (Grades 5-6)
1st Prize: Maxine Park
2nd Prize: Justin Wang
3rd Prize (tie): Emily Huang and Emily Tong Wang
Honorable Mention:
Michael P. Karshis
Jane Hwang
Division 3 (Grades 7-8)
1st Prize: Stephen Wang
2nd Prize: Shidong Xu
3rd Prize: Danika Dai
Honorable Mention:
Porter Alan Matteson
Charmaine Liu
Division 4 (Grades 9-10)
1st Prize: David Kotler
2nd Prize: Hexue Li
3rd Prize: Niklas Kniesche and Jacob Kline
Division 5 (Grades 11-12)
1st Prize: Wynne Yao
2nd Prize: George Hu and Isaac Sebenius
3rd Prize: Michelle Chen
Division 1 (Grades 3-4)
1st Prize: Katherine E. Liu (Wellesley, MA)
2nd Prize (tie): Michael P. Karshis (Foxboro, MA) and Jacqueline Zhang (Newton, MA)
3rd Prize: Justin Wang (Northborough, MA)
Division 2 (Grades 5-6)
1st Prize: George Kiu (Boston, MA)
2nd Prize (tie): Rubin Zou (Nashua, NH) and Danika S. Dai (Lexington, MA)
3rd Prize (tie): Kyle Chen (Groton, MA)
Christopher Zhu (Needham, MA)
Division 3 (Grades 7-8)
1st Prize: Avik Sarkar (Chestnut Hill, MA)
2nd Prize: Niklas Kniesche (Providence, RI)
3rd Prize: Sophie Chen (Shrewsbury, MA)
Division 4 (Grades 9-10)
1st Prize: Victor Li (Wayland, MA)
2nd Prize (tie): Kevin Chen (Andover, MA) and Yiming Li (Natick, MA)
3rd Prize (tie): Amir Siraj (Brookline, MA) and Amber Wolf (Newton, MA)
Division 5 (Grades 11-12)
1st Prize: Angelique Scully (Franklin, MA)
2nd Prize: Daniel Kim (Lexington, MA)
3rd Prize (tie): Anastasia Dulsky (Windham, NH) and Phuong Nghi Pham (Boston, MA)
Honorable Mentions (all divisions):
Natalie Yuan Zhang (Wayland, MA)
Emily Tong Wang (Newtonville, MA)
Allison Jodoin (Sandwich, MA)
Kenichiro Takeoka (Newton, MA)
Dylan Wang (Brookline, MA)
Jamin Liu (Newton, MA)
Shidong Xu (Brookline, MA)
Karen Ji (Bourne, MA)
Kara Chuang (Wayland, MA)
Michelle Chen (Acton, MA)
Hexue Li (Natick, MA)
Division 1
1st Prize: Meghan Tan
2nd Prize: Dylan Wang
3rd Prize: Julius Arolovich and Justin Wang
Honorable Mentions: George Kiu, Rin Miyoshi, Emilia Spasojevic, Steven Zhang
Division 2
1st Prize: Hannah Ryu and Avik Sarkar
2nd Prize: Christopher Zhu
3rd Prize: Fianna Ton
Honorable Mention: Kyle Chen
Division 3
1st Prize: Kevin Chen and Peter Wang
2nd Prize: Kara Chuang
3rd Prize: Lauren Jiang
Honorable Mentions: Niklas Kniesche, Anna Larsen, Karen R. Ji, Geo Lee
Division 4
1st Prize: Minji Kwon
2nd Prize: Bryan Alexander McGuiggin
3rd Prize: George Hu and Daniel Shaar
Division 5
1st Prize: Christopher Staknys
2nd Prize: Phuong Nghi Tran Pham
3rd Prize: Yong Murray and Harvey Wu
Congratulations to all for their hard work and excellence in the competition.
We would like to thank this year’s judges:
Divisions 1, 2 and 3: Valentina Lass, Marina Magazinnik and Heng-Jin Park
Divisions 4,5: Tema Blackstone, Michael Lewin and Andrew Rangell.
Division 1
1st place: Rubin Zou
2nd place: Avik Sarkar
3rd place: Hannah Ryu
Honorable Mention: Jamin Liu and Deanna Neff
Division 2
1st Place: Niklas Kniesche
2nd Place: Michelle Chen and Karen R. Ji
3rd Place: Amir Siraj and Anna Shi
Division 3
1st place: Peter (Chuang-Chuang) Fang
2nd place (Ex-aequo): Daniel Kim and Yoko Ellie Fukumura
3rd place (Ex-aequo): Vanessa Meiling Haynes and Phuong Nghi Pham
Congratulations to all for their hard work and llence in the competition.
We would like to thank this year’s judges Roxana Bajdechi, Boaz Sharon and Stephen Porter.
To clarify, only the First Prize winners from the previous years are prohibited from entering the subsequent year’s competition. So anyone awarded second, third, or honorable mention qualifies for the next year’s competition.
Division 1
1st place: Elizabeth Winslow Maimone
2nd place: Leon Fan
3rd place: Rubin Zhu
Honorable Mention: Kyle Chen, Amir Siraj, Elizabeth Zhang
Division 2
1st Place: TIE: Victor Li
Kevin Chen
2nd Place: TIE: Siddharth Arun
Daniel Shaar
3rd Place: Victor Zhang
Honorable Mention: Xuan Chau, Tiffany Lu, Kevin Sherman
Division 3
1st place: Luke Halberstadt—BACH
2nd place: Lana Suran—DUMKA
3rd place: TIE: Oliver Xie—SCARLATTI
Raagini Rameshwar—MOZART
Honorable Mention: Kevin Ren, Layla Siraj
First Division Winners (ages 9 and under):
1st place – Jessica Gao
2nd place – Simonida Spasojevic
3rd place – Ririko Uchida
Honorable Mentions: Leon Fan, Elizabeth Zhang, and Rubin Zou
Second Division Winners (ages10-12):
1st Place – Andrew Li
2nd Place – Yinian Tang
3rd Place (tie)- Kevin Zhu
3rd Place (tie) Kevin Chen
Honorable Mentions: Sarah Goodman, Kevin Ren, Amir Siraj.
Third Division Winners (ages 13-18):
1st Place- Chi Wei Lo
2nd Place (tie)- Mackenzie Melemed
2nd Place (tie)- Eun Mee Hong
3rd Place- Yong Murray
Honorable Mentions: Eric Zhang, Matthew Wu, Winston Huang, Henry Zavriyen.
Division 4 Winners
1st Prize – Not Awarded
2nd Place – Marion Scott
3rd Prize – Not Awarded
First Division Winners (ages 9 and under):
1st Prize: Andrew Li
2nd Prize: (split) Amir Siraj
2nd Prize: (split) Kara Chuang
3rd Prize: Anna Larsen
Honorable Mention: Kevin Chen
Second Division Winners (ages10-12):
1st Prize: (split) Kadar Qian
1st Prize: (split) Seho Young
2nd Prize: Christopher Staknys
3rd Prize: Daniel Kim
Honorable Mention: Kevin Zhu, Victor Li, Derek Wang
Third Division Winners (ages 13-18):
1st Prize: Emma Liu
2nd Prize: Mackenzie Melemed
3rd Prize: Tristan Smith
Honorable Mention: Elias Dagher, Kayo Nagai, Winston Huang, Liang-Shun Lim, Silas Chan
1st Prize: Joshua Curtis, from West Hatfield, MA, attends Smith Academy and Studies with Jonathan Bass at the New England Conservatory.
2nd Prize: Wei Liang Kung, from Natick, MA, attends Walnut Hill School and studies with Natalia Harlap at the New England Conservatory.
3rd Prize: Ariel Borenzstein, from Lexington, MA, attends Lexington High School and has been accepted to every college he has applied to for music including Harvard, Yale, and Oberlin.
Honorable Mention: Jeremy You, Jeffrey You, brothers from Newton, MA.
Honorable Mention: Henry Zavriyev, 8th grader from Swampscott, MA.
2nd Division Winners (ages 19-35):
1st Prize: Oleksandr Poliykov, born in Kiev Ukraine in 1988, resides in Boston, MA. Studies with Michael Lewin at the the Boston Conservatory. Has performed with many orchestras in Europe, won Grand Prize in a piano competition in Lonigo Italy in 2005, 3rd prize at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Compeitition in Ukraine (2007).
2nd Prize: Yelena Beriyeva, from Georgia in the former Soviet Union, resides in Boston, MA. First appeared with orchestra in Georgia at age 5. Performed in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Russia and the US with major symphonies. Has a masters of Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Alexander Korsantia.
3rd Prize (tie): Jai Won Choi, lives in Boston, MA, studies at the New England Conservatory.
3rd Prize (tie): Andrei Baumann, lives in Boston, studies at the New England Conservatory.