Lumina Zhang, 10 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. She recently won third place in the “Great Composers International Competition” playing Shostakovich’s “Lyrical Waltz”. Lumina has other accomplishments. She performed in Carnegie Recital Hall this past May because she won two competitions sponsored by the Piano Teachers Society of America. One of these competitions required her to perform five pieces for memory, one of which had three separate movements
