上海音乐学院民乐系讲师，中阮、柳琴演奏家吴强，多次在各项比赛中获奖，并数次出访美国、前苏联、新加坡、荷兰、比利时、日本、香港、台湾等十多个国家和地区，受到了广泛的一致讚誉。在大陆、港台等地录制出版了中阮、柳琴独奏的镭射唱片，音乐带等专辑，一些专辑还几次再版。她的演奏基本功扎实，技术精湛，音乐感觉极其到位，并赋有非常的感染力，使人在看或听她演奏时，只感觉其音乐未觉察其演奏痕迹，并随之完全融入她所表现的音乐之中。
吳強是我國傑出的柳琴、中阮演奏家，她以隨心所欲、爐火純青的演奏，年紀輕輕就坐上了中國民族管弦樂學會柳琴分會副會長的交椅。一九七八年，考入上海音樂學院附中，一九八七年，以優異成績畢業於上海音樂學院民樂系本科梅雷森先生的柳琴專業，並留校任教，二○○二年獲夏飛雲先生的民樂指揮碩士學位，現為上海音樂學院民樂系副教授，柳琴、中阮碩士生導師，「絲弦五重奏」課程指導老師。她曾獲得文化部主辦的全國民族器樂觀摩比賽柳琴組第一名、「上海之春」演出獎、上海市三八紅旗手稱號、上海市優秀青年教師稱號和上海文藝人才「優秀教師獎」等眾多榮譽。
WU Qiang
WU Qiang is a lecturer in the Chinese Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory and a zhongruan, liuqin performer. She has been given awards in many competitions, and has visited places like the USA, the former USSR, Singapore, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and was highly acclaimed by the audience. In China, Hong Kong and Taiwan she has published on CD and cassettes albums of zhongruan, liuqin solo, and some are re-published several times. She has strong basic skills, an apt musical sense and the genius of building up the atmosphere, such that the listener can get involved in her music without consciously noticing details of her playing.
WU Qiang is a famous liuqin and zhongruan performer. She has strong basic skills and is elected the vice president of the Liuqin Society attached to the Chinese Traditional Instrumental Society. In 1978, she was admitted to the affiliated secondary school of Shanghai Conservatory. In 1987, she completed her university study and graduated from the conservatory and then became a lecturer in alma mater. She passed her master degree in 2002. She is now the associated professor of liuqin and zhongruan. She has won the first prize in liuqin section in the national competition and other awards of different functions.