琴、箏演奏家丁承運原籍河南鄧州，一九四四年三月出生於河南開封。自幼得家訓，隨胞姊丁伯苓習琴、箏，後師事中州琴家陳仲巳、陳樹三、黃松濤，泌陽箏家王省吾等，及長又師從顧梅羹及張子謙習琴藝。一九六九年畢業於湖北藝術學院民族器樂系，一九七二年起任教於河南大學藝術學院，現為武漢音樂學院長江傳統音樂文化研究中心主任，中國音樂學院及台灣南華大學客座教授。丁氏對琴學、古樂器研製、中國樂律學、中州箏樂等研究致力，多次獲得國家及地方頒發的優秀成果獎項，其打譜發掘的琴曲《神人暢》、《白雪》、《六合遊》等，亦頗具成績，其著作有《中國造琴傳統抉微》、《清商三調音階調式考索》、《古瑟調弦與旋宮法鈎沉》等等數十篇章。
DING Cheng-yun
DING Cheng-yun was born in March 1944 in Kaifeng, Henan province. His ancestral home was in Dengzhou, Henan province. He started to learn the qin and zheng from his elder sister DING Bo-ling when he was young. Later, he learned the qin from CHEN Zhong-si, CHEN Shu-san, HUANG Song-tao and the zheng from WANG Sheng-wu. He further studied the qin from the masters GU Mei-geng and ZHANG Zi-qian. In 1969, he graduated from the Traditional Instrumental Music Department of Hubei Academy of Arts. In 1972, he taught in the Art Academy of Henan University. Presently, he is the director of the Research Centre for Traditional Music of Yangzi river, Wuhan Conservatory. He is also the visiting professor of the China Conservatory and the Taiwan Southern-China University. He is outstanding in research of qin music, remanufacturing of ancient musical instruments, Chinese musical theory and the art of zheng in Henan School. He has transcribed (dapu) many ancient qin musics for performance and has written many articles on his research in Chinese music.