三弦演奏家、教育家蕭劍聲，一九二八年十月一日出生於湖南省洞口縣，中學時即好絲竹，早年向京韻大鼓三弦琴師魏福漢習琴，後從師著名三弦演奏家白鳳岩。一九四九年，入中南部隊藝術學院音樂系，主修三弦，畢業後留校任音樂工作隊演奏員，一九五四年，調中國人民解放軍總政治部文工團歌劇團樂隊任演奏員，一九六四年，中國音樂學院成立，調該院器樂系任三弦專職教授，集教學、演奏、樂改、創編及科研於一身，退休後仍傾心於三弦音樂的承傳與發展，免費傳授三弦技藝，其所改革傳統三弦獲國家科技獎狀，又記譜、整理白鳳岩創作著名三弦獨奏曲《風雨鐵馬》及《八音合》等，與黃曉飛合作三弦協奏曲《紅梅》、與張肖虎等合作三弦協奏曲《劉胡蘭》等。
XIAO Jian-sheng
XIAO Jian-sheng was born on October 1, 1928 in Dongkou, Hunan province. He was fond of traditional instruments. He started to learn the sanxian under WEI Fu-han who played the sanxian accompaniment of the Beijing Versified Story Singing. Later on, he further studied it under BAI Feng-yan. In 1949, he was admitted to the Music Department of the Art School of Central South Troop majoring in sanxian performing and stayed in the ensemble of the school as his career. In 1954, he was transferred to the operatic Troupe attached to the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department. In 1964, he was appointed to the newly set up China Conservatory as the teacher of sanxian until his retirement. His reformation on the traditional sanxian won the National Technical Prize. He has compiled and published BAI Feng-yan’s famous sanxian pieces. He has composed the sanxian concertos Red Plum and LIU Hu Lan with HUANG Xiao-fei and ZHANG Xiao-hu respectively.