Wang Fandi, a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, was born in Shanghai. Famous Pipa artist and educator. He studied under the tutelage of pipa experts Ma Linsheng, Li Tingsong, and silk and bamboo experts Chen Yonglu. Former professor of China Conservatory of Music, president of Beijing Chinese Traditional Music Association, director of China International Cultural Exchange Center.

He has published papers such as "Basic Theory of Pipa Playing Technique and Teaching", "Several Problems of Pipa Right-hand Training", "The Relationship between Pipa's Right-hand Movement Form and Sound Quality", and "Research on Pipa Teaching Language". Some papers have been translated into Japanese by Japanese scholars and published in the Japanese Biwa journal.

In 1991, at the invitation of the Japan International Exchange Fund, he went to Japan to conduct a comparative study of the Chinese pipa and the Japanese Satsuma pipa.

Wang Fandi's teaching and research achievements have a wide range of influences at home and abroad. He has composed and composed "Spring in Tianshan", "Give Me a Rose", "Capriccio of the Red Detachment of Women", "Lancang Spring Dawn" and other pipa solo pieces, and recorded albums and cassette tapes of traditional pipa solo pieces. In 1988, at the invitation of Taiwan Fu Mao Records Publishing House, he recorded "Wang Fandi's Pipa Solo Album". He has in-depth research on various ethnic musical instruments in China. In his rich artistic activities, he integrates performance, teaching and theoretical research. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, he has made contributions to the performance, creation, teaching and research of pipa art.