湯良興:
琵琶演奏家汤良兴，一九四八年四月二十二日生于上海，七岁开始学习二胡及琵琶，十三岁考入上海民族乐团学馆，先后师从马林生、马圣龙、孙裕德、李廷松、卫仲乐、邹轲等习琵琶，又从张子谦习古琴，一九七○年，调上海乐团，一九七四年，被选为中央交响乐团特邀琵琶演奏家，在北京和日本十六个城市演出，获得高度评价，其后又受邀于上海交响乐团、上海艺术团、上海芭蕾舞团、中国艺术家代表团等出访海外演出。一九七五年，奉调文化部筹组的“录音录像小组”与其他多位音乐家一同研究民族器乐人声化，以琵琶模拟京剧唱腔作实验。一九八一年起，开始首演了《花木兰》、《西双版纳的晚霞》等大型琵琶协奏曲，一九八六年，移居美国，又参与当地乐团为各大学与中小学作音乐教育节目数百场，影响深远。一九九七年，自美赴台，在高雄市实验国乐团任客席演奏家，一九九八年八月，被聘为台南艺术大学专任副教授，致力于教育和传承工作。
TANG Liang-xing
On April 22, 1948, pipa performer TANG Liang-xing was born in Shanghai. He started tolearn erhu and pipa when he was seven years old. At thirteen years old, he admitted the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra’s learning center. He learned from MA Lin-sheng, SUN Yu-de, MA Sheng-long, LI Ting-song, WEI Chung-loh, ZOU Ke for the pipa and ZHANG Zi-qian for the guqin. In 1970, he was admitted the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1974, he was invited to the Beijing Central Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest pipa performer. He joined the orchestra to perform in the cities of Japan. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Ballet Troupe, the Shanghai Art Group and the Chinese Artist Delegation then invited him to join them for the overseas performances. In 1975, he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture together with WANG Fan-di, XU Jiang-de, SONG Bao-cai, HON See-wah and some others to form a group in research to imitate human songs with traditional instruments. Since 1981, he has premiered many pipa concertos such as Hua Mu Lan, Xishuangbanna’s Sunset, etc. In 1986, he migrated to the United States. In 1997, he has his pipa concerts in Taiwan and uptil now he is invited as professional pipa tutor in the universities of Taiwan.