楊靖:
青年琵琶演奏家楊靖，一九六四年四月出生於湖北省武漢市。六歲在其父親劉時本的啟蒙下開始學習柳琴，十歲時從遊於湖北各琵琶名家。一九七七年考入武漢音樂學院附中，師從周謙副教授。一九八二年秋，她以優異的成績考入中國音樂學院器樂系本科，師從當代著名琵琶大師劉德海教授學習四年，更加系統地接受了嚴格的訓練，一九八六年大學本科畢業以優異成績被推薦為免試碩士研究生。一九八六年到一九八八年間，在導師劉德海教授的指導下，對琵琶演奏藝術、理論研究等方面進行認真的研讀。一九八八年獲文學音樂表演碩士學位，並留校任教。一九八零年舉行的「上海之春」全國琵琶比賽，年僅十五歲的小楊靖，初露鋒芒，榮獲二等獎。一九八二年春在全國民族器樂觀摩比賽中，榮獲總名次第二，琵琶演奏第一名的成績，並獲得了優秀表演獎。一九八九年夏在「ART」杯民樂國際比賽，獲琵琶二等獎。一九九五年五月楊靖在中國民族器樂國際獨奏比賽中再次奪魁，榮獲一等獎。一九九四年她被評為北京優秀青年教師骨幹，同年被評為副教授。她現時為中國音樂學院器樂系副教授、音樂表演專業碩士、中國音樂家協會會員。
YANG Jing
The young pipa player YANG Jing was born in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province in April 1964. At the age of 6 she started to learn the liuqin under her father. She grew up in a good arts education environment and soon began performing on stage. At the age of 10, she travelled along various famous pipa player in Hubei. In 1977, she entered the affiliated secondary school of Wuhan Music Institute and studied under Professor ZHOU Qian. In autumn 1982, she entered the Instrumental Music Department of Chinese Conservatory of Music with excellent academic achievement and studied under the famous contemporary pipa master Professor LIU DE–hai for 4 years. She received demanding training systematically and represented the Conservatory for many times to join various performances. In 1986, she graduated with excellent academic achievements and was exempted from further assessment to become a postgraduate student. From 1986 to 1988, under the instruction of Professor LIU DE–hai, she seriously studied the areas of pipa performance art and theoretical research, and wrote an academic thesis entitled The Rational Perception and Recreation of Pipa Performance. In 1988, she held her solo graduate concert. After answering questions about her thesis, she was awarded the Master Degree in Literary Music Performance and stayed in the Conservatory as a teacher. In the national pipa competition in Shanghai in 1980, the 15-year-old YANG Jing won a second prize award and left a deep impression in the hearts of the audience. In the National Chinese Instrumental Music Competition in spring 1982, the matured Yang Jing achieved an overall rank of 2nd among many musician playing different instruments and ranked 1st in pipa performance. In summer 1989 she won a second prize award in pipa performance in an international Chinese music competition. In October 1992, her solo concert was held in Beijing together with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1993, she joined the concert performance of Classic Works of 20th Century Chinese Music. In May 1995, YANG Jing won a first prize award in an international Chinese instrumental music competition. For over 10 years,YANG Jing has been involved in various large-scale concert performances in China and visited over 20 countries for performance, and was well-received by the audience and critics.