Yangqin player Lu Jing's recent concert at Carnegie Hall fulfills a dream for the young artist. Hu Haidan reports in New York.

When Lu Jing applied for a Columbia University graduate program in stage management in 2010, her friends feared she might give up the musical instrument she had been playing since age 4.

But the musician knew she wouldn't put down the yangqin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer. In fact, studying in New York turned out to be fortuitous for a musician with a dream of reaching people around the world.