嗩呐演奏家趙春亭，一九○七年七月二十三日出生於河北省滄州縣崔莊一個嗩呐世家，一九八四年四月十九日病逝於北京，享年七十七歲。自幼酷愛民間鼓吹樂，十一歲時拜著名民間樂手「吹破天」及伯父與大哥為師，學習民間吹管樂器。一九五三年，被選為河北省代表隊的一員參加「全國第一屆民間音樂、舞蹈匯演」，以嗩呐獨奏《山東大鼓》和《小放牛》獲優秀演奏獎。後即被北京中央歌舞團吸納為獨奏演員，並於一九六○年調任新成立的中央民族樂團，開始代表國家作對外文化交流的使命，其間又不斷的學習與研究，開發了「簫音」、「三弦音」等新的演奏技巧，一九六四年，調職北京新成立的中國音樂學院任教，並任中國音協民族管樂研究組顧問，對新一代的學子作一絲不苟的培育，同年由北京音樂出版社出版《趙春亭嗩呐曲選》。
ZHAO Chun-ting
ZHAO Chun-ting was born on July 23, 1907 in Cangzhou, Hebei province and passed away of illness at the age of seventy-seven on April 19, 1984. He liked music since his childhood and learned the traditional wind instruments under the famous musician “Blowing to Break the Sky” and his elder brother also his uncle at the age of eleven. In 1953, he was selected to represent Hebei Province to participate in the 1st National Joint Performance of Folk Music and Dance. He won the outstanding prize with the solo suona pieces The Shandong Dagu and Feeding Cattle. After that, he was appointed to the Chinese orchestra of the Central Song and Dance Troupe of China in Beijing as a soloist. In 1960, he was transferred to the newly set-up National Traditional Orchestra of China. During that period, he developed many new techniques for the suona like the sound of xiao, and sound of sanxian. In 1964, he was transferred to take up a teaching post in the new established China Conservatory. He also took up the post of supervisor of the research unit of the Wind Instruments Society under the Chinese Musicians’ Association. In the same year, the Beijing Music Publishing House published his suona pieces The Collection of Zhao Chun-ting’s Suona Pieces.