Erhu performer and educator, born in Shandong in 1939. He studied under Jiang Fengzhi and others and graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music. He respects his teacher and is eager to learn, diligent and diligent, learns from others' strengths, and has the courage to explore, and has formed his own unique playing style.
He has created and adapted works such as Nostalgic Songs, Turning Songs, and Mercedes-Benz in a Thousand Miles of Prairie. He has also edited the book "Nine Erhu Songs and the Requirements for their Performance" and basic textbooks such as "Erhu Etude". He used to be the chief erhu of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra and taught at the Central Conservatory of Music. He also cooperated with Man Ruixing and others to develop three new musical instrument specifications: Fangyuan Erhu, Low-key Thick String Erhu and Flat Octagonal Gaohu, which won the Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Ministry of Culture and were included in the "Illustrated Guide of Chinese Musical Instruments". In 1992, he was awarded the title of "Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution" by the Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China. Dictionary of Chinese Artists (Modern Volume) and Who's Who in Cambridge Centre, UK.
Wang Guotong's erhu art has become famous in the music world as early as the 1960s. He successfully performed "Sanmenxia Imagination" and "Northern Henan Ballade" with innovative techniques. An epoch-making milestone in erhu performance". In his long-term erhu art practice, he has not only cultivated a group of outstanding erhu performers at home and abroad, but also learned from others and formed his own unique artistic style. His performance skills are superb, his artistic conception is profound and moving, his feelings are deep and sincere, and his performance is simple and rigorous. He has been invited to perform and give lectures in more than 20 countries on five continents for many times, and has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of Scotland, the Kansai Symphony Orchestra of Japan, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the former Central Orchestra, etc., and enjoys a high reputation in the international music circle. He has held more than ten "Wang Guotong Erhu Concerts" and more than 30 "Wang Guotong Erhu Demonstration Lectures" in Hong Kong, sparing no effort to promote the art of erhu.