筝演奏家、教育家、理论家曲云，一九四六年五月出生于陝西省西安，原籍山东省平度。一九五九年考入西安音乐学院附中，师从周延甲、高自成等习筝与琵琶，一九七○年，从该院本科毕业后，在陝西民间艺术团任职十六年，又得筝家曹正及民族音乐学家李石根长期指导，对演奏、创作及筝乐在西安古乐中的兴衰与乐谱流传等，均有深入研究，并发表若干论文。现在陝西师范大学艺术学院任教，并为陝西省秦筝学会副会长、陝西省音乐家协会常务理事、中国筝会筹委会副主任。
QU Yun
QU Yun was born in May 1946 in Xi’an, Shanxi province and her ancestral home was in Pingdu, Shandong province. In 1959, she was admitted to the affiliated middle school of Xi’an Conservatory learning the zheng and pipa from GAO Zi-cheng and ZHOU Yan-jia. In 1970, she graduated from the conservatory and was appointed to the Folk Art Troupe of Shanxi for sixteen years. During these years, she was given valuable guidance from the well-known scholars CAO Zheng and LI Shi-gen. These combined laid the solid foundation to her later performance, composing and theoretical research. Now QU Yun is working as a professional zheng soloist, teacher and doing the teaching and researching work of traditional music. She published a series of valuable thesis concerning the position of zheng in Xi’an ancient music, the detailed discussion of the music score, etc. She is a professor of the Art College of Shanxi and has various tiles of zheng societies and musicians’ associations of big cities and provinces.