王範地:
琵琶艺术家、教育家王范地浙江镇海人，一九三三年十二月十六日生于上海，二零一七年十二月八日病逝于北京。王氏曾师从琵琶专家马林生、李廷松、丝竹专家陈永禄。一九五七年，在第六届世界青年联欢节国际民间器乐比赛中王范地荣获金质奖章。二十世纪六十年代起，开始从事琵琶专业教学和理论研究，他是培养出中国第一位琵琶硕士研究生的导师。一九九一年，应日本国国际交流基金会的邀请赴日进行中国琵琶和日本萨摩琵琶之比较研究。他创编了《天山之春》、《送我一支玫瑰花》、等琵琶独奏曲，对中国多种民族乐器有较深的研究。在他丰富的艺术活动中，集演奏、教学和理论研究于一身，在继承传统的基础上，对琵琶艺术的演奏、创作教学研究作出了贡献。王教授尝任中国音乐学院教授，北京中华传统乐会会长，中国国际文化交流中心理事。
WANG Fan-di
China’s famous pipa artist and educationist WANG Fan-di was born in Shanghai on December16,1933 and passed away of illness on December8,2017 in Beijing. His ancestral home was in Zhenhai, Zhejiang province. He had studied under pipa expert MA Lin-sheng and LI Ting-song as well as expert of string and woodwind instrument, CHEN Yong-lu. WANG Fan-di has been active in domestic and foreign stages since 1950s. He won the golden medal in the competition of international instruments in the Sixth World Youth Gathering Festival in 1957. He has engaged himself in the professional teaching and theoretical research of pipa the 1960s and has trained hundreds of pipa performers and teachers, most of whom have become the professional performers and teachers. The first graduate who got pipa master degree in China was tutored by him. He has been invited to teach or give lectures in conservatories of different regions. In 1991, he was invited by Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation to do research work in Japan for comparing the Chinese Pipa and Japanese Pipa. The teaching and researching results work of WANG Fan-di has wide influence both at home and abroad. He has recorded albums and tapes of traditional pipa solo music, and has composed the pipa solo tunes such as Spring of Tianshan Mountain, Give Me a Rose, etc. Professor WANG Fan-di has done deep research in various kinds of Chinese traditional instruments. WANG Fan-di is the professor of China Conservatory, the president of Beijing Chinese Traditional Music Association and the member of the Chinese International Cultural Exchange Center.