Meet our Performers
2026 Spring Piano Recital May 17th @2:00 pm-5:30 pm

Audrey Ma
🥇 First Place , NJMTA Young Musicians Competition 2024 (Age 5 Category) and 2025 (Age 6 Category)
🥇 First Place, Professional Category – Chicago International Music Competition 2025
🥇 First Place - Golden Classical Awards 2024
🥇 First Place – Charleston International Piano Competition 2025
🏆 High Honor – NJMTA Spring Recital Audition 2025 and
🥇 First Place--NJMTA Young Musicians Competition 2025 (Age 6 Category)
🏅 Top Gold Medalist- 2025 Trinity International Music Competition
🥇 First Place - 2025 WPTA Spain IPC and special prize best performance of a work of Chopin
🥇 First Place - 2026 Chopin Avenue International Piano Competition - Junior Solo
🏆 High Honors – NJMTA Spring Recital Audition in both Solo and Duet 2026

Ethan Wu
🥇 Grand Prize--the 7th APEX International Piano Competition 2026
🏆 High Honor– NJMTA Spring Recital Audition Solo 2026, 2024, 2023, and 2022
🏆 Was selected as a Steinway Future Young Artist in September, 2025
🏆 A candidate for the Steinway Advanced Master Class with Professor Alexandre Moutouzkine, head of the Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music in 2025

Tony Zhu
🥇 Piano Star International Piano Competition Winner
🥇 Henle Piano Competition Winner
🏆 High Honor– NJMTA Spring Recital Audition Solo 2026
🏆 Was selected as a Steinway Future Young Artist in September, 2025
🏆 A candidate for the Steinway Advanced Master Class with Professor Alexandre Moutouzkine, head of the Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music in 2025

Boyu Lin
🏆 Award Winner--2026 Chopin Avenue International Piano Competition
🏆 High Honor– NJMTA Spring Recital Audition Solo 2026
🥇 First Plus Prize--the 7th APEX International Piano Competition 2026
🏆 Selected to perform at the 2025 New Jersey Piano Teachers Conference in the Master Class with Sean Chen, Third Prize Winner at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Katherine Yaxin Liu
🥇 First Plus Prize--the 7th APEX International Piano Competition 2026
🏆 Honor– NJMTA Spring Recital Audition Solo in both 2025 and 2026
🥈 Second Prize-- Crescendo International Music Competition 2024 and 2023
🥇 Gold Prize--Golden Key Music Festival 2022
🥇 Grand Prix Winner--Concert Festival International Competition 2020

Elizabeth Zhang / Host
🥇 First Prize--American Music Talent Voice 2024
🥇 First Prize--American Protégé and APEX competitions
🏆 Graced the stage at Carnegie Hall and appeared in the CCTV Super Baby Chinese New Year Celebration Show. Most recently, Elizabeth released her debut EP single What I Can Be on all digital platforms in April 2025

































