Zhang Hongyan, a native of Shengzhou, Zhejiang, is a pipa performer and educator, a professor of the Central Conservatory of Music, a master tutor, a member of the All-China Youth Federation, and a director of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
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Fan Wei, born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province in 1972, is one of the top ten young pipa performers in China. She is an associate professor of pipa in the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, a master tutor, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, and the secretary-general of the Pipa Association of the Chinese National Orchestra Society.
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Sun Yude (1904-1981), ancestral home in Yuepu Xinxing Town, Baoshan County, was born in Shanghai on November 23, 1904. my country's famous folk musicians. During his lifetime, he served as the first deputy head of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, a member of the Chinese Musicians' Folk Music Committee, a member of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the deputy director of the Shanghai Folk Music Committee. He also served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Wang Yuting (1872-1951), founder of Wang School Pipa (Shanghai School Pipa). Ming Min, nickname Ziyi. Anhui Xiuning people. In his early years, he was engaged in business, and he loved music. He first learned about Xiao and Sanxian. In the 26th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (1900), he learned pipa from his neighbor Wang Huisheng, and successively sent pipa to Zhejiang Li Fangyuan, Yin Jiping, Ni Qingquan, and Chen Zijing to learn pipa.
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Shen Haochu (1889-1953) was a passer-by from the Huang family in Shanghai. The fourth-generation descendant of the Pudong School Pipa is also an ancestral TCM physician with excellent medical skills and high medical ethics. He also studied ancient literature and art, and authored 16 volumes of "Yuanren Yuefu Annotations". But Shen Haochu's highest achievement is his pipa art and theory. Mr. Lin Shicheng, a well-known master pipa player, is his disciple.
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Li Guanghua (1947.5.29—2018.3.4) male, native of Shandong, was born in Beijing. Han nationality. Since 1966, he has been engaged in the teaching of Pipa. Pipa player and educator. Member of the Chinese Musicians Association, executive director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, executive vice president (and secretary general) of the Pipa Professional Committee, and a member of the Hong Kong Buddhist Cultural Industry - Buddhist Music Committee (Buddhist Musical Instrument Committee). He was the former deputy director of the National Instrumental Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music (1992-1995).
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Wu Man, a Chinese folk music performer, who introduced the pipa to the West, has a great contribution. Wu Man was the direct descendant of the Pudong School. The Pudong School is one of the most respected traditional pipa schools in the dynasty.
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Zhang Qiang, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, is a pipa player and a master tutor of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
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Chen Wen, born in Hsinchu, Taiwan Province in 1961, female, native of Lianjiang, Fujian, is a guqin player. He used to be the president of Taipei Hezheng Society.
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Liu Chuhua, female, is a senior Guqin music instructor in Hong Kong. She has also taught Guqin lessons at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Department of Music of the Chinese University of China.
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