箏演奏家、教育家、理論家曲雲，一九四六年五月出生於陝西省西安，原籍山東省平度。一九五九年考入西安音樂學院附中，師從周延甲、高自成等習箏與琵琶，一九七○年，從該院本科畢業後，在陝西民間藝術團任職十六年，又得箏家曹正及民族音樂學家李石根長期指導，對演奏、創作及箏樂在西安古樂中的興衰與樂譜流傳等，均有深入研究，並發表若干論文。現在陝西師範大學藝術學院任教，並為陝西省秦箏學會副會長、陝西省音樂家協會常務理事、中國箏會籌委會副主任。
QU Yun
QU Yun was born in May 1946 in Xi’an, Shanxi province and her ancestral home was in Pingdu, Shandong province. In 1959, she was admitted to the affiliated middle school of Xi’an Conservatory learning the zheng and pipa from GAO Zi-cheng and ZHOU Yan-jia. In 1970, she graduated from the conservatory and was appointed to the Folk Art Troupe of Shanxi for sixteen years. During these years, she was given valuable guidance from the well-known scholars CAO Zheng and LI Shi-gen. These combined laid the solid foundation to her later performance, composing and theoretical research. Now QU Yun is working as a professional zheng soloist, teacher and doing the teaching and researching work of traditional music. She published a series of valuable thesis concerning the position of zheng in Xi’an ancient music, the detailed discussion of the music score, etc. She is a professor of the Art College of Shanxi and has various tiles of zheng societies and musicians’ associations of big cities and provinces.