lorango studied piano at the curtis institute of music, where his teachers included leon fleischer, mieczyslaw horszowski, and seymour lipkin. he won prizes including the leventritt foundation award, a young recitalist's fellowship grant from the national endowment for the arts, the first piano prize at the 1979 g.b. dealy awards competition, and the 1985 first prize in the liederkranz foundation competition.