abstract:Li Ming-Qiang (, also spelled Li Min-Chan) - is a Chinese classical pianist. He studied under Alfred Wittenberg and Tatiana Kravchenko, and as a young pianist in the late 1950s and early 1960s won awards at several Eastern European music competitions: the Smetana Competition in Prague in 1957 (3rd prize), the Enescu Competition in Bucharest in 1958 (1st prize), the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition (sic) in Warsaw in 1960 (4th prize).