程先生亦名程午加，江苏省奉贤县南桥镇人。一九○二年二月十日生于江苏奉贤，一九八五年十一月十五日于南京因胃疾手术，伤口发生感染，不幸逝世。自幼从父学习各种民族乐器，一九一七年七月经陈有荃介绍拜琵琶名家沉肇州学习《瀛州古调》，又拜王燕卿门下学习诸城派琴曲，二十世纪二十年代初为首批大同乐会成员，并从郑觐文学古琴与仿古乐器及其制作，从汪昱庭学琵琶；一九三六年成为新成立的“今虞琴社”首批会员；新中国成立后为山东大学艺术系、华东艺术专科学校骨干教师；一九五五年创改出“鼓琶”等新乐器；一九五八年起任教于南京艺术学院。著述包括《琵琶曲集》、《中国锣鼓曲》、《月琴、秦琴、三弦》等，创作乐曲有《泰山观日出》、《巴山夜雨》等。
CHENG Wu-jia
CHENg Wu-jia was born on February 10, 1902 in Fengxian (now belong to Shanghai district), Jiangsu and he passed away at the age of 83 years old in Nanjing in 1985. He learned music from his father when he was young. In 1917, he started to learn the pipa from the famous teacher SHEN Zhao-zhou and the qin from WANG Yan-qing. In the early 1920’s, he joined the “Ta Tung National Music Research Institute” and studied music under ZHENG Jin-wen and WANG Yu-ting. In 1936, when Jin Yu Qin Society was established, he joined it as a member. He reformed and made new instruments such as gupa in 1955. In 1958, he was employed by the Nanjing Academy of Arts.