香港柳琴演奏家阮仕春，一九四九年生于广州市，现为中国文化部乐器改革专家小组成员、文化部科技进步奖评审委员会委员、香港作曲家及作词家协会会员。阮氏从事演艺工作三十年，乐器改革有卓著的成就，其改革的双共鸣箱柳琴和阮咸先后两次获中国文化部颁发［奖励证书］授予科学技术进步二等奖。阮氏自一九七四年加入香港中乐团，一九八七年起，任柳琴首席。亦受聘于香港中文大学、音乐事务处及香港演艺学院，教授柳琴及撰写教材，多年来为香港、台湾两地培育出众多优秀的演艺人材，于一九九三年，协助成立了世界上首个柳琴室内乐团。一九九二年，其改革的“双共鸣箱柳琴”获得文化部科技进步奖二等奖；阮氏又于一九九三年创制出中音柳琴、次中音柳琴，创造出完善的柳琴系列。一九九五年，又继续探索阮的改革，创制出阮咸，一九九六年十月，再荣获中国文化部科学技术进步奖二等奖。
YUEN Shi-chun
YUEN Shi-chun is a famous liuqin player in Hong Kong. He was born in Guangzhou in 1949. He is a member of the instrument reform expert group of the Cultural Ministry of China. He has been engaged with performing art for 30 years. His achievements in instrument reform are influential. The liuqin with double resonance box and ruanxian that he reformed have won prizes from the China Cultural Ministry. Over the past 40 years, he is the first winner of these prizes who lives outside China. He has joined the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra since 1974, and has been the leading liuqin player since 1987. He has also been involved in liuqin education and publication of teaching materials. He has brought up many outstanding performers in Hong Kong and Taiwan over the years. In 1993 he helped to established in Taipei the first liuqin chamber orchestra in the world. He successfully invented the liuqin with double resonance box. In 1992, a committee formed by 15 celebrated musicians and experts declared that the reform was unique, scientific and practical after detailed testing of the instrument, and he was given a second honour for it in the same year. With the spirit of a pioneer, he invented liuqins of different sizes and pitch in 1993 and thus completed the liuqin family. In 1995, he invented the ruanxian which was also highly acclaimed by the evaluating committee and was given a second honour for it in 1996.