Lumina Zhang, 11 years old, a Maryland, USA native and a student of Loretta Jankowski of Newark, Delaware, USA, started playing piano when she was 5 and half years old.
Lumina Zhang has accomplished a great deal. She received first prize in the ""Music of America"" category sponsored by GREAT COMPOSERS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS and she received third prize from this same international competition in both ""Best Shostakovich Performance"" and ""The Art of the Piano"" categories. In addition to this International competition, she performed in Carnegie Recital Hall as a result of winning in six separate categories of competitions sponsored by the PIANO TEACHERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA. In total, she mastered and memorized ten pieces for PTSA. She received a special award for this accomplishment because no one in the 38 year history of PTSA had accomplished this. She also performed in Carnegie Recital Hall last May because she won two competitions sponsored by the PTSA. One of these competitions required her to perform five pieces for memory, one of which had three separate movements.
