王正平:
琵琶演奏家、作曲家、指揮家以及台灣國樂園地的拓荒者王正平，一九四八年九月二十七日年生於中國杭州，二零一三年二月二十一日病逝於台北市。王氏中學時在香港跟隨琵琶名家呂培原先生習藝，奠定了其藝術生涯的穩固根基。一九六八年，獲全台灣音樂比賽琵琶獨奏成人組冠軍，在台大求學期間，領導台大國樂社並指揮多年，歷任中國國樂團指揮五年、台北市立國樂團指揮兼副團長五年、台北市立國樂團團長等職。一九八九年，獲英國CNAA音樂哲學博士，為中國傳統樂界第一位博士。
WONG Ching-ping
WONG Ching Ping is a pipa soloist, composer and conductor. Born in Hangzhou on September 27, 1948 and passed away of illness on February 21, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied pipa with LUI Pui-yuan during his secondary school days in Hong Kong. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the modernization of pipa repertoire. Besides rearranging ancient melodies, he also engages in music creation and concentrates efforts on the incorporation of the distinctive flavour of guqin into pipa and develops new fingering techniques. He is formerly the director of the Taipei Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra and has performed widely in Japan, Korea, the United States and Europe.