古筝演奏家尹其颖，一九三三年六月出生于辽宁营口，原籍辽宁海城，回族人，祖父为晚清辽南名中医及筝家。尹氏少时已能奏二胡与小提琴，一九五○年，入渖阳文艺干部训练班，一九五一年，参加中国人民解放军东北公安部队文工团，一九五五年，考入东北音专，专修古筝，先后师承曹正、赵玉斋、苏文贤及罗九香等人。在校期间即开始将钢琴曲《晚会》、《牧童短笛》移植由筝演奏，一九五七年，赴莫斯科参加青年联欢节，演奏雷雨声创作的三重奏《春天来了》，获金质奖章。一九五八年，毕业后在甘肃省人民电台乐队任职。一九六二年，调北京中央民族乐团，创编筝曲有《五月的草原》、《天河颂》、《瑶族舞曲》、《翻身舞曲》、《翻身的日子》等。著文《龟兹乐初探》、《筹与口辨析》、《莫高窟乐舞图录》、《前蜀王建墓石刻伎乐是瑟非筝考》及《晚清筝家尹鸿兆》等。
YIN Qi-ying The Zheng player YIN was born in Liaonin in 1933. His grandfather was also a Zheng player and Chinese doctor. YIN could play erhu and violin when he was young. In 1950, he entered training classes in Shenyang. In 1951, he joined the People’s Army Arts Troupe. In 1955, he started his study of zheng in the Northeast Music Institute and was taught by the most famous zheng masters of China. He had transplanted some piano pieces to zheng by that time. In 1957, he won the gold medal in the music fest ival in Moscow by playing the trio piece “Spring is Coming”. In 1958, he worked in the Gansu Radio then transferred to the Central Chinese Orchestra in 1962. YIN had composed many famous zheng pieces and wrote some important essays about Chinese music.