楊靖:
青年琵琶演奏家杨靖，一九六四年四月出生于湖北省武汉市。六岁在其父亲刘时本的启蒙下开始学习柳琴，十岁时从游于湖北各琵琶名家。一九七七年考入武汉音乐学院附中，师从周谦副教授。一九八二年秋，她以优异的成绩考入中国音乐学院器乐系本科，师从当代著名琵琶大师刘德海教授学习四年，更加系统地接受了严格的训练，一九八六年大学本科毕业以优异成绩被推荐为免试硕士研究生。一九八六年到一九八八年间，在导师刘德海教授的指导下，对琵琶演奏艺术、理论研究等方面进行认真的研读。一九八八年获文学音乐表演硕士学位，并留校任教。一九八零年举行的“上海之春”全国琵琶比赛，年仅十五岁的小杨靖，初露锋芒，荣获二等奖。一九八二年春在全国民族器乐观摩比赛中，荣获总名次第二，琵琶演奏第一名的成绩，并获得了优秀表演奖。一九八九年夏在“ART”杯民乐国际比赛，获琵琶二等奖。一九九五年五月杨靖在中国民族器乐国际独奏比赛中再次夺魁，荣获一等奖。一九九四年她被评为北京优秀青年教师骨干，同年被评为副教授。她现时为中国音乐学院器乐系副教授、音乐表演专业硕士、中国音乐家协会会员。
YANG Jing
The young pipa player YANG Jing was born in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province in April 1964. At the age of 6 she started to learn the liuqin under her father. She grew up in a good arts education environment and soon began performing on stage. At the age of 10, she travelled along various famous pipa player in Hubei. In 1977, she entered the affiliated secondary school of Wuhan Music Institute and studied under Professor ZHOU Qian. In autumn 1982, she entered the Instrumental Music Department of Chinese Conservatory of Music with excellent academic achievement and studied under the famous contemporary pipa master Professor LIU DE–hai for 4 years. She received demanding training systematically and represented the Conservatory for many times to join various performances. In 1986, she graduated with excellent academic achievements and was exempted from further assessment to become a postgraduate student. From 1986 to 1988, under the instruction of Professor LIU DE–hai, she seriously studied the areas of pipa performance art and theoretical research, and wrote an academic thesis entitled The Rational Perception and Recreation of Pipa Performance. In 1988, she held her solo graduate concert. After answering questions about her thesis, she was awarded the Master Degree in Literary Music Performance and stayed in the Conservatory as a teacher. In the national pipa competition in Shanghai in 1980, the 15-year-old YANG Jing won a second prize award and left a deep impression in the hearts of the audience. In the National Chinese Instrumental Music Competition in spring 1982, the matured Yang Jing achieved an overall rank of 2nd among many musician playing different instruments and ranked 1st in pipa performance. In summer 1989 she won a second prize award in pipa performance in an international Chinese music competition. In October 1992, her solo concert was held in Beijing together with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1993, she joined the concert performance of Classic Works of 20th Century Chinese Music. In May 1995, YANG Jing won a first prize award in an international Chinese instrumental music competition. For over 10 years,YANG Jing has been involved in various large-scale concert performances in China and visited over 20 countries for performance, and was well-received by the audience and critics.