王正平:
琵琶演奏家、作曲家、指挥家以及台湾国乐园地的拓荒者王正平，一九四八年九月二十七日年生于中国杭州，二零一三年二月二十一日病逝于台北市。王氏中学时在香港跟随琵琶名家吕培原先生习艺，奠定了其艺术生涯的稳固根基。一九六八年，获全台湾音乐比赛琵琶独奏成人组冠军，在台大求学期间，领导台大国乐社并指挥多年，历任中国国乐团指挥五年、台北市立国乐团指挥兼副团长五年、台北市立国乐团团长等职。一九八九年，获英国CNAA音乐哲学博士，为中国传统乐界第一位博士。
WONG Ching-ping
WONG Ching Ping is a pipa soloist, composer and conductor. Born in Hangzhou on September 27, 1948 and passed away of illness on February 21, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. He studied pipa with LUI Pui-yuan during his secondary school days in Hong Kong. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the modernization of pipa repertoire. Besides rearranging ancient melodies, he also engages in music creation and concentrates efforts on the incorporation of the distinctive flavour of guqin into pipa and develops new fingering techniques. He is formerly the director of the Taipei Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra and has performed widely in Japan, Korea, the United States and Europe.