【1】Lim says he actually had a late start in music, learning to play the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, when he was 15.
备注:以上现在分词learning...作非限制性定语修饰前面的he相当于who was learning to play....instrument when he was 15
【2】"I self-funded myself, twice a year, up to four months every year for three years, coming to Beijing to study the sheng and later composition," he says.
备注:以上现在分词coming...作原因状语相当于because I came to Beijing to study the sheng and later composition.