Mehana Ellis is a UC Berkeley Music major studying piano under the tutelage of Betty Woo. At the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she previously studied with Annamarie McCarthy. Mehana was named a Ross McKee Young Artist in the 25th Annual Ross McKee Piano Competition, Grand Prize winner of the 2nd Elena Leonova International Young Pianists Competition, was awarded Berkeley's Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Scholarship, and participated in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2022 and the International Music Festival of the Adriatic in 2023. Mehana studied with Anton Nel at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2024, where she performed in a masterclass with Mikhail Voskresensky. She has performed at 92nd Street Y, Carnegie Hall, SFCM’s Bowes Center, UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall, Harris Hall (Aspen), and abroad in Austria, England, France, Italy, Serbia (presented a lecture-recital at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad in 2024 and a solo recital in 2025), and Slovenia. In Semptember 2025, Mehana will perform at the Academy of Music Ballroom in Philadelphia.