沈興順先生，一九五六年生於香港，先後隨寓港容思澤、蔡德允二師習琴，並獲北京吳景略、蘇州吳兆基教授指導。操縵之餘蒐訪歷代古斲並考其沿革，所藏宋元明清琴曾展出於香港（一九九八、二ＯＯ三）、台北（二ＯＯＯ）及澳門（二ＯＯ四）各地博物館。一九九七年北京音樂研究所聘為特約研究員，一九九八年起擔任香港德愔琴社副社長至今，撰有《歷代琴器概說》、《絃外雜錄》、《潞琴考略》、《香江琴話》等。
SHUM Hing-shun was born in 1956 in Hong Kong. He learned the qin under RONG Si-ze and TSAR Teh-yun and got advice from WU Jing-lue and WU Zhao-ji. He was fond of preserving antique qins. His collections has been exhibited in Hong Kong (1998, 2003), Taiwan (2000) and Macau (2004). He was appointed to the Music Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Arts as a specially invited research fellow. He was the vice-chairman of the Deyin Qin Society since 1998.