林石城:
琵琶演奏家、教育家林石城，一九二二年出生，二○○五年病逝于北京，上海南汇人。十三至十五岁时，父亲教会他演奏二胡、三弦、琵琶等多种民族乐器。十九岁毕业于上海中国医学院，工作期间仍醉心于乐器演奏，尤其是琵琶，并拜浦东派琵琶大师沉浩初为师，技艺逐渐成熟。被邀任上海浦东电气公司国乐队、永泰公司乐队、广慈医院民乐队、上海第一医学院学生会民乐队为教师；上海春秋集团乐社音乐指导；上海国乐研究会及建声国乐社顾问等。一九五六年，任教中央音乐学院，为民乐系教授。长期以来，他还和中央音乐学院、北京民族乐器厂、上海民族乐器厂的琵琶制作师傅合作，对旧有的琵琶的背料长度、音箱形态、横档位置、面板厚薄、複手材料及金属弦的鉴定等，进行了多方面的改革，取得了明显的效果。从教五十年，培养了刘德海、叶绪然、吴俊生、李光祖、潘亚伯等一大批当今琵琶界的中坚力量，成为我国现、当代琵琶界承上启下的代表人物，获中国音乐“金钟奖终身荣誉勳章”。
LIN Shi-cheng
LIN Shi-cheng was born in 1922 in Shanghai Nanhui. Under his father’s direction, he learned to play erhu, samxian and pipa at 13 to 15 years old. When he was 19 years old, he graduated from the Shanghai China Medical College. He was still interested in playing musical instruments. He then learned the pipa under the direction of master SHEN Hao-chu of the Pudong School. Many ensembles in Shanghai employed him as instructor in traditional music training. In 1956, he was a professor of the Central Conservatory, which started him for pipa teaching profession. He also worked together with the musical instrument manufacturing section of the Central Conservatory, the Beijing Musical Instrument Factory, the Shanghai Musical Instrument Factory for the reformation of pipa manufacturing skills, and has obtained the tangible effects. After teaching for 50 years, his fellow students like LIU De-hai, YE Xu-ran, WU Jun-sheng, LI Guang-zu, PAN A-bo and so on are now the representatives in pipa performing and teaching in China.