笙、芦笙演奏家、教育家徐超铭，一九四二年十二出生于浙江省天台县。徐氏自幼喜爱音乐，六岁随兄习二胡，中学时继绩随音乐教师邱士干习二胡。一九五八年，初中毕业后隻身赴上海，以一曲《烛影摇红》考取上海音乐学院附中，师从王乙。翌年，由于王氏之倡议，学校开设笙演奏专业，在王氏鼓励下，改学笙演奏专业。先后随上海民族乐团张新民与上海实验歌剧院赵凤印习十七簧笙。一九六二年，附中毕业，直升上音大学部民族音乐系本科，继从赵凤印习笙一年，又短期从贵州省歌舞团著名芦笙演奏家东丹干习十八管芦笙。现为中国笙学会副会长、上海音乐学院教授。作品有《送茶》等多首笙曲，又与牟善平、萧江合作编著《笙练习曲选》一书，著文有《笙的和音与结合音》刊《音乐艺术》一九九一年第四期、《笙演奏技术的创新》刊《音乐艺术》一九九七年第一期。
XU Chao-ming
XU Chao-ming was born in December, 1942 in Tiantai county, Zhejiang province. At the age of six, he learned the erhu from his elder brother. When he studied in the middle school, he continued to study the erhu under the music teacher QIU Shi-gan. In 1958 after his graduation from junior middle school, he was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory and studied under famous musician WANG Yi. A year after, he was encouraged by WANG Yi, changed his study-subject from the erhu to the newly set-up sheng profession. He then studied the seventeen-reed sheng under ZHANG Xin-min of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and ZHAO Feng-yin of the Experimental Opera House of Shanghai. In 1962, he graduated from the affiliated secondary and continued to study in the conservatory under ZHAO Feng-yin. He also short-term studied the eighteen-reed lusheng under the renowned musician DONG Dan-gan of the Song and Dance Troupe of Guizhou Province. He is now the vice chairman of the Sheng Academy Society of China, Professor of Shanghai Conservatory. His compositions on the solo sheng included Tea Serving, etc. He also wrote many articles about the sheng which had been published by music magazines.