劉森:
笛子演奏家、作曲家、指挥家及声乐艺术指导刘森，一九三七年生于河北省保定市，自幼随父亲刘成鹏学习音乐，青年时代已为著名的笛子演奏家及作曲家。刘氏随严良堃先生学习指挥艺术，以及随沉湘先生、李晋玮先生学习声乐和歌剧艺术。曾任中央广播民族管弦乐团（现中国广播民族乐团）独奏演员兼指挥，中国广播合唱团、总政歌剧团、总政交响乐团及中国电视爱乐乐团指挥。现为中国广播电视学会电视音乐艺术研究委员会副会长，中国音乐家协会、中国戏剧家协会及中国电视艺术家协会会员。他把中国古代旋宫转调的技术再现于世，利用按半孔的方法解决了传统六孔笛子演奏十二平均律并可任意转调的难题，同时以独创指法演奏超高音，扩展笛子的演奏音域。代表作有《乡村小景》、《牧笛》、《小放牛》及所移植的《霍拉舞曲》等都是笛曲的经典，悠扬如歌的笛声给人以莫大的享受，至今仍被世人所喜爱，为创立民族音乐的多元化艺术表现方法作出了开创性的成果。
LIU Sen
LIU Sen was born in 1937 in Baoding, Hebei province. He learned music from his father LIU Cheng-peng since he was a child and became famous in dizi performing at his youth. He studied the art of conducting under the famous conductor YAN Liang-kun and the art of vocal under SHEN Xiang and LI Jin-wei. He has been the soloist and conductor of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, the conductor of the China Broadcasting Choral Group, the Political Operatic Group, the Political Symphony Orchestra and the China Television Philharmonic Orchestra. Presently, he is the vice-chairman of the Television Musical Art Research Committee of the China Broadcasting and Television Academic Society, the members of the Chinese Musicians’ Association, the Chinese Dramatic Association and the Chinese Television Artists’ Association. He has successfully used half-hole to perform the semi-tones on the dizi to settle the problem of difficult modulation. His compositions and transcriptions included Scenes of the Village, Shepherd’s Flute, The Cowherd and Village Girl, and Hora Staccato, etc.