湯良興:
琵琶演奏家湯良興，一九四八年四月二十二日生於上海，七歲開始學習二胡及琵琶，十三歲考入上海民族樂團學館，先後師從馬林生、馬聖龍、孫裕德、李廷松、衛仲樂、鄒軻等習琵琶，又從張子謙習古琴，一九七○年，調上海樂團，一九七四年，被選為中央交響樂團特邀琵琶演奏家，在北京和日本十六個城市演出，獲得高度評價，其後又受邀於上海交響樂團、上海藝術團、上海芭蕾舞團、中國藝術家代表團等出訪海外演出。一九七五年，奉調文化部籌組的「錄音錄像小組」與其他多位音樂家一同研究民族器樂人聲化，以琵琶模擬京劇唱腔作實驗。一九八一年起，開始首演了《花木蘭》、《西雙版納的晚霞》等大型琵琶協奏曲，一九八六年，移居美國，又參與當地樂團為各大學與中小學作音樂教育節目數百場，影響深遠。一九九七年，自美赴台，在高雄市實驗國樂團任客席演奏家，一九九八年八月，被聘為台南藝術大學專任副教授，致力於教育和傳承工作。
TANG Liang-xing
On April 22, 1948, pipa performer TANG Liang-xing was born in Shanghai. He started tolearn erhu and pipa when he was seven years old. At thirteen years old, he admitted the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra’s learning center. He learned from MA Lin-sheng, SUN Yu-de, MA Sheng-long, LI Ting-song, WEI Chung-loh, ZOU Ke for the pipa and ZHANG Zi-qian for the guqin. In 1970, he was admitted the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1974, he was invited to the Beijing Central Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest pipa performer. He joined the orchestra to perform in the cities of Japan. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Ballet Troupe, the Shanghai Art Group and the Chinese Artist Delegation then invited him to join them for the overseas performances. In 1975, he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture together with WANG Fan-di, XU Jiang-de, SONG Bao-cai, HON See-wah and some others to form a group in research to imitate human songs with traditional instruments. Since 1981, he has premiered many pipa concertos such as Hua Mu Lan, Xishuangbanna’s Sunset, etc. In 1986, he migrated to the United States. In 1997, he has his pipa concerts in Taiwan and uptil now he is invited as professional pipa tutor in the universities of Taiwan.