Zhao Songting, flute player and composer. Zhejiang Dongyang people. At the age of nine, he learned to play the bamboo flute. Graduated from Shanghai Law School. He used to be a music teacher in Dongyang Middle School and Jinyun Normal School. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a member of the 21st Army Art Troupe of the People's Liberation Army, a performer of the Zhejiang Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, a teacher and an art director of the Zhejiang Provincial Art School.

Zhao Songting's performance not only has the elegant style of the Southern School, but also absorbs the strong and bright features of the Northern School. He has been engaged in flute art for 60 years, and is recognized as one of the representatives of Chinese flute, the founder of Zhejiang style flute art, and is known as the "Jiangnan Dizi King". He transplanted the cyclic ventilation method commonly used in Wu Opera suona into flute performance, which enriched the expressive power of bamboo flute performance and formed a unique style combining rigidity and softness. He created and first used the pan flute, created the L-shaped double bass flute, which greatly broadened the range of bamboo flute playing, and personally designed and produced the ancient flute-like wind instrument "chi".

There are two styles of Chinese flute: the "Southern style" characterized by beauty, elegance and splendor, and the "Northern style" characterized by roughness, brightness and vigor. In order to better express the spirit of the times, Zhao Songting broke the boundary between the north and the south and absorbed the strengths of both. , and learn from some techniques of the Western flute to form the "Zhejiang School" that combines softness with rigidity and hardness and softness. He also applied the special cyclic ventilation method of suona to the flute performance, which enriched the expressive means of the flute. Zhao Songting's flute art is self-contained, integrating flute performance, creation, production, scientific research, writing and teaching. His contribution to Zhejiang and Chinese folk music and its development is huge.