劉森:
笛子演奏家、作曲家、指揮家及聲樂藝術指導劉森，一九三七年生於河北省保定市，自幼隨父親劉成鵬學習音樂，青年時代已為著名的笛子演奏家及作曲家。劉氏隨嚴良堃先生學習指揮藝術，以及隨沈湘先生、李晉瑋先生學習聲樂和歌劇藝術。曾任中央廣播民族管弦樂團（現中國廣播民族樂團）獨奏演員兼指揮，中國廣播合唱團、總政歌劇團、總政交響樂團及中國電視愛樂樂團指揮。現為中國廣播電視學會電視音樂藝術研究委員會副會長，中國音樂家協會、中國戲劇家協會及中國電視藝術家協會會員。他把中國古代旋宮轉調的技術再現於世，利用按半孔的方法解決了傳統六孔笛子演奏十二平均律並可任意轉調的難題，同時以獨創指法演奏超高音，擴展笛子的演奏音域。代表作有《鄉村小景》、《牧笛》、《小放牛》及所移植的《霍拉舞曲》等都是笛曲的經典，悠揚如歌的笛聲給人以莫大的享受，至今仍被世人所喜愛，為創立民族音樂的多元化藝術表現方法作出了開創性的成果。
LIU Sen
LIU Sen was born in 1937 in Baoding, Hebei province. He learned music from his father LIU Cheng-peng since he was a child and became famous in dizi performing at his youth. He studied the art of conducting under the famous conductor YAN Liang-kun and the art of vocal under SHEN Xiang and LI Jin-wei. He has been the soloist and conductor of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, the conductor of the China Broadcasting Choral Group, the Political Operatic Group, the Political Symphony Orchestra and the China Television Philharmonic Orchestra. Presently, he is the vice-chairman of the Television Musical Art Research Committee of the China Broadcasting and Television Academic Society, the members of the Chinese Musicians’ Association, the Chinese Dramatic Association and the Chinese Television Artists’ Association. He has successfully used half-hole to perform the semi-tones on the dizi to settle the problem of difficult modulation. His compositions and transcriptions included Scenes of the Village, Shepherd’s Flute, The Cowherd and Village Girl, and Hora Staccato, etc.