丁紀園女士，河南鄧州人，一九四二年出生。在學期間，就讀於瀋陽音樂學院，一九六二年開始師從蜀派古琴名家顧梅羮學習操縵之藝，得顧氏傳授琴樂名曲二十餘首，尤擅《流水》、《醉漁唱晚》、《漢宮秋月》、《普庵咒》、《平沙落雁》、《瀟湘水雲》、《憶故人》諸操。又致力於打譜工作，發掘整理出《漢宮秋》、《莊周夢蝶》、《宋玉悲秋》等曲。現居於河南鄭州，其演奏風格端莊雋永，清麗凝重，將所學薪傳，不遺餘力。
DING Ji-yuan was born in 1942. Her ancestral home was in Dengzhou, Henan Province. She was studied at Shenyang Conservatory and she started to learn the qin under GU Mei-geng of the Sichuan School in 1962. She is skillful at playing Flowing Water, Evening Song of the Drunken Fisherman, Autumn Moon over the Han Palace, Pu-an’s Incantation, Wild Geeses over the Calm Sands, The Mist and Clouds over Xiao-Xiang Rivers, Memories of an Old Friend, etc.