Lu Peng, Professor, specializes in the yang qin (hammered dulcimer). She began performing at the age of six and, in 1978, entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she studied under Minqin Guo and Shengmao Hong. In 1984 her performance in the Fourth Shanghai Festival of Spring was broadcast by Radio Beijing and Radio Shanghai. She has performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra and the Traditional Orchestra of Hong Kong, and here in America at Carnegie Hall.