sentences:  Four years later, she won first prize at the Scène Française International Piano Competition, in Paris, was a prize winner at the IBLA International Competition in Italy, and was semi-finalist at the "Torneo Internazionale di Musica" in Rome.At the age of 14, she wrote three pieces for chamber orchestra which were played at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.She came to the United States in 1990 for graduate studies with Susan Starr at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia where she received a Master's Degree in piano and musical composition, and won the Orchestra Competition and the Strine Award scholarship.