马向华，现为中央音乐学院青年教师。山东济南人，七岁起开始随济南市少年宫的陈建新老师学习二胡，九岁拜师于济南前卫歌舞团苏安国门下，一九八六年，入中央音乐学院附小，师从冯智皓，附中教师为聂靖宇。自一九九一年开始，师从刘长福。一九九八年，以优异成绩获学院免试保送攻读硕士学位研究生，继续随刘长福深造。除主修二胡外，副修板胡导师为李恒，高胡导师为田再励。此外，曾多次到广东、上海等地方学习不同的地方音乐，得到甘尚时、余其伟、闵惠芬、林心铭等老师的多方指导，获益良多。在济南时期，已多次获得儿童器乐比赛第一名，于中央音乐学院期间，二次获傅成贤奖学金一等奖，一九八九年，在“ART”杯中国乐器国际比赛中获少年组二胡专业组一等奖；一九九七年台北中国器乐大赛获二胡组第一名，为二胡比赛的常胜军。二○○三年参加“东方魅力女子乐团”，进一步在多方面的表演及音乐形式作尝试及磨练，为其成为更全面的二胡艺术家奠下更扎实而广阔的基础。
MA Xiang-hua
MA Xiang-hua was born in Jinan, Shandong province. She began to learn the erhu in Jinan Children’s Palace under CHEN Jian-xin and SU An-gou of the Jinan Progress Chinese Orchestra. In 1986, she was admitted to the affiliated primary school of the Central Conservatory, learning the erhu under FENG Zhi-hao and in the secondary school her teacher was NIE Jing-yu. Since 1991 she began to further her study under LIU Chang-fu. In 1998 she continued to study as a postgraduate student under professor LIU Chang-fu. Besides taking erhu as the major,she studied banhu under professor LI Heng, and gaohu under assistant professor TIAN Zai-li. She also went to Guangdong and Shanghai, etc, to study different local music from GAN Shang-shi, YU Qi-wei, MIN Hui-fen, LIN Xin-ming. All these teachings gave her much help. She won many prizes throughout the years. During her childhood in Jinan she won the first prize at the Instrumental Competition for Children. When she was study in the Central Conservatory, she won twice the first prize of the Scholarship of FU Cheng-xian. In 1997 she won the first prize for erhu in the Taipei Chinese Musical Instruments Competition. Since 2003, she joined the Oriental Angels ensemble group. The enormous practice and performance of modern type of Chinese music further widen the performance range of her erhu art.