Sarah Chen 陳麗如
My literary name is Rúyī, also known as Fúyìn Zhānbǔ. I am currently secretary of the Chinese Guqin Association,
and an assistant teacher of guqin at Taipei Qin Hall. I also am a teaching associate at Master Yuan Jung-ping’s studio, the XiXuan Dawn-Bright Calligraphy Studio. I have been studying calligraphy and guqin with Master Jungping Yuan, and have devoted myself to collaborating with him in carrying on the twin arts of calligraphy and guqin. Master Yuan selected my studio name, the Rúyī Hall. Currently I live in Danshui, Taiwan, and I concentrate on the practice of calligraphy and qin to cultivate and promote good health and long life.
[NB. Taipei Qin Hall, and the XiXuan Dawn-Bright Studio were founded by Yuan Jung-ping. Both a museum and a school, all the traditional arts related to guqin are practiced and taught, with a special focus on the history and practice of guqin music and the art of calligraphy.] https://www.taipeiqinhall.com
陳麗如，字如一，號佛印占卜，現任中華古琴學會秘書長，台北琴道舘古琴助教，曦軒書道班班長。琴學及書道受業於袁中平先生，左琴右書以跟隨先生傳承及發揚琴道及書道為志。先生賜號如一堂。目前定居淡水，撫琴習書養生立命。
Yuting Chao 趙鈺婷
Yuting wanted to learn the qin because she likes Chinese culture. From a Hanfu promotion lecture in 2015, She visited the Taipei Qin Hall and became a student of qin there. Later, she was fortunate to serve at the Taipei Qin Hall, and further learned the qin with Master Yuan Jung ping . Now she is a freelancer and a teaching assistant at the Taipei Qin Hall.
As the time of learning the qin grows, she gradually realize the principle of returning to the basics. It turns out that there are many laws of heaven and earth in the most basic timbre. She hopes that on the road of qin learning, she will have the opportunity to promote it to more people to know the guqin culture together, and move forward with you who are enthusiasts.
因喜中華文化而想學琴，從2015年一次漢服推廣講座起，遇見中華古琴學會-臺北琴道舘，進而成為古琴課的學生，後來因緣際會而有幸為琴舘服務、並與舘主 袁中平老師進一步習琴。現為自由工作者，同時也是臺北琴道舘助教。隨著習琴時間漸長，也逐漸體會返璞歸真之理，原來在最基本的音色中，就蘊含許多天地規律。希望在琴學的道路上，有機會推廣給更多人一起認識古琴文化，與愛好者的你們一起前行。
Andrey Danilov 袁安瑞 (https://www.andreydanilov.com/about)
Originally from Moscow. A graphic designer, photographer, movement enthusiast and musician, his fascination for Chinese culture is complemented by his affection for classic Americana and various forms of martial arts.
He began studying Guqin and calligraphy with Master Jung Ping Yuan in 2018. After periods of intense study and surviving an arduous examination, Andrey obtained a Qin Teaching Certificate in December 2019. He continues to learn and work with Master Jung Ping, for the love of Qin.
Jung Ping Yuan 袁中平
Yuan Jung-Ping’s qin music career spans over forty years. His first qin teacher was Master Sun Yu-Qin, and he finished his music training with Master Wu Zhao-Ji after Master Sun had passed away. In addition to the qin, Yuan Jung-Ping is also a master in Chinese calligraphy and Taichi.
He is the founding president of the New York Qin Society, president of the Chinese Guqin Association, and director of the Taipei Qin Hall.
袁中平，字穆如，號中道人，清明琴齋主。祖籍江西省，生於台北市。琴道啟蒙於台北孫毓芹先生，受業於蘇州吳兆基先生；兼習氣功及太極拳。書道受業於紐約張隆延先生。委懷琴書四十餘年。2000年起先後創立美國「紐約琴社」,青島「中道琴社」, 台北「中道琴社」。現為中華古琴學會-臺北琴道舘 會長.
https://www.taipeiqinhall.com/yuan-jungping-138311.html
Peiyou Chang 張培幼
Peiyou has been playing and studying the Guqin since 2000, and was taught initially by Mr. Yuan Jung-Ping. She is devoted to Guqin music reconstruction, composition, promotion and performance both solo and ensemble. She is currently the president of the New York Qin Society. www.peiyouqin.com
習琴至今已22年. 啟蒙於袁中平先生. 近年來致力於古琴教學, 打譜, 創作. 為現任紐約琴社社長. 她的網址: www.peiyouqin.com
Tung Chen 陳瞳
Tung Chen is currently a junior high school student from New Jersey. Before moving to New Jersey, she lived in California for 3 years and Shanghai for 11 years. She first started learning the guqin in Shanghai in 2013 under the guqin professional Yang Zhi Jian’s（杨致俭老师）association. Playing the guqin provides endless knowledge to not only the guqin culture but also depths of the history of this instrument, and also adds a peaceful state of mind to the life of a busy high schooler.
Shuen-git Chow 周旋捷
Shuen-git Chow started guqin research creations in year 2000 in order to promote and develop the art and culture of guqin as part of media art creation while Assistant professor at School of Creative Media in Hong Kong, where an interactive graphics to music play has been created, developed and presented at various international conferences in the field of guqin and also in the field of graphics interactive media arts starting from virtual world online concert presentations. Since then, she has learnt to make guqins the traditional way and more recently at Tainan National University of the Arts as visiting professor, she had the chance to learn to make guqins the traditional way from scratch under Master Shan ZhiYuan, who was an invaluable experienced qin maker advisor to the innovative carbon fiber guqin project, a prototype, it has been presented at NYQS and in HK, Europe to guqin specialists at guqinconferences. It was received with great enthusiasm. Currently, Shuen-git works on the “MobileMusic” series of sculpture in which colorful cubes are created from aluminum pre purposed skins – these are collected globally from everywhere. Each cube has a story. Latest work is entitled “Raindrops Flowering”, it represents news from around the world, just like raindrops, it brings forth flowers. “MobileMusic” the sculpture is an on-going project and is conceived as a mobile landmark which travels, and it is a sign for a temporary music event, for everybody to enjoy sharing music together, formally and informally.
Stephen Dydo 戴德
Independent Music Professional. The president of NY Qin Society from 2006-2012. His website: http://www.dydomusic.com/index.htm
Daniel Juarez (Peiyou’s student)
Daniel is an award winning multi instrumentalist song writer based in California. His music reflects a melancholic and melodic style stemming from his years as an alternative hard rock singer songwriter blended with a unique combination of acoustic world instruments. Daniel is currently working on his debut instrumental album scheduled to be released in the winter of 2022 followed by a select number of tour dates.
Andrea Lioy
I was born and raised in Italy. I started working for a theater company in my teens. My dream was to become a playwright, so I was working odd jobs backstage during the day and writing at night. At some point, a producer liked one of my plays and staged it. It was successful enough for me to be commissioned to write three more. I moved to London in the mid-1990s to pursue further education, getting as far as an MA in Communication Design and an MA in Japanese Cultural Studies. In the academic year 2005-6, I began teaching writing to visual artists and formed a Creative Writing Workshop that is still running today.
I started studying Guqin in mid-2019 — almost three years into it. I can tell you it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life among many bad ones. Next step: learn to make Guqins.
Other relevant data: I love cinnamon donuts. Whoever buys me a cinnamon donut has my heart forever. I occasionally collaborate with a university in China. You can find some notes about my work here: http://www.dlpu.edu.cn/detail/22/8e8cc3633f8e9d4025b776ef221ee13a.html
我在意大利出生和長大. 十幾歲時, 我開始為一家劇院公司工作。在後台打零工，但我的夢想是成為一名劇作家。所以我白天工作，晚上寫作。在某個時候，一位製片人喜歡我寫的東西並上演了我的一個劇本。它算是夠成功, 我得以繼續生產了第二本、第三本和第四本。我在 1990 年代中期搬到倫敦繼續深造，並獲得了傳播學碩士學位和日本文化研究碩士學位。我在 2005-6 學年開始向視覺藝術家教授寫作，並創建了一個至今仍在運行的創意寫作研討會。我在 2019 年 中開始學習古琴. 目前已進入第三年. 這是我一生中做出的許多糟糕決定中最好的決定。下一步：學習製作古琴。另外我喜歡肉桂甜甜圈。誰若給我買了一個肉桂甜甜圈，將會擄獲我的心。我偶爾會與中國的一所大學合作。你可以在此網站找到一些關於我的工作的筆記http://www.dlpu.edu.cn/detail/22/8e8cc3633f8e9d4025b776ef221ee13a.html
André Ribeiro 林柏儒
He is a poet and a musician, Ph.D. in musical composition / post-doctorate at University of São Paulo Teaching composer and ethnomusicologist from São Paulo University (USP) and Brasilia University (UnB). Qin player under the guidance of Peiyou Chang 張培幼 (New York Qin Society) and has as mentor Master Yuan Jung-Ping 袁中平(Taipei). Researches oriental poetics in Brazilian music through the research group POEM, linked to the São Paulo University Department of Music’s postdoctoral program. LINE’s researcher (LINE: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Study of Sound) at the University of Brasilia. Co-founder and director of Guqin Brazil Association 巴西古琴協會(2019), and musical director of the Gaoshan Liushui Ensemble 高山流水 of Chinese music since 2012. He is a researcher in the Chinese community in São Paulo, conducting ethnographic research on music in Buddhist rites and ceremonies, especially at the Tzong Kwan’s Temple 中觀 寺 community. (https://www.artedoqin.com/nyqs)
詩人, 音樂家, 聖保羅大學音樂作曲專業博士/博士後, 在聖保羅大學 (USP) 和巴西利亞大學 (UnB) 任教作曲和民族音樂學。師琴於張培幼（紐約琴社）也曾解惑於袁中平大師（台北）。通過與聖保羅大學音樂系博士後項目相關的研究小組 POEM 研究巴西音樂中的東方詩學。 巴西利亞大學LINE的研究員（LINE：聲音研究跨學科實驗室）。巴西古琴學會聯合創始人兼理事（2019），自2012年起擔任中國音樂高山流水樂團音樂總監。也是聖保羅華人社區的研究員，從事佛教儀式音樂的民族志研究，尤其是在中觀寺社區。(https://www.artedoqin.com/nyqs)
John Thompson 唐世璋
Former President of the New York Qin Society, began in 1974 to study qin in Taiwan from Sun Yü-Ch’in, then while living in Hong Kong from 1976 to 2001 began reconstructing old melodies from Ming dynasty handbooks, in particular Shen Qi Mi Pu (1425) and Xilutang Qintong (1525). He moved to New York in 2001, returned to Asia (Mumbai and Singapore) from 2009 to 2013, then came back to New York in 2013, all the time continuing his project of qin performance and research. His website, www.silkqin.com, with over 150 recordings of his reconstructions from Ming dynasty scores plus a wealth of related information about the qin, focuses on “historically informed qin performance” (requiring use of silk strings and accurate descriptions of historical details), and is arguably the richest resource for information on the qin on the Internet.
前任紐約琴社社長, 於1974年在台灣開始學琴於孫毓芹先生. 1976 年至2001年 住在香港期間, 他打出很多明代的琴譜. 特別著重於【神奇祕譜】及【西麓堂琴統】. 2001年移居至紐約, 2009 至 2013旅居印度孟買. 2013 回到紐約後他繼續從事琴學的研究. 他的網站 www.silkqin.com 有超過150 首他的明代琴曲打譜錄音. 再加上豐富的琴相關資料，重點是“史料琴演奏”（要求使用絲弦和準確描述歷史細節），可以說是網上最豐富的古琴信息資源。
Juni Yeung 楊雪亭
MA (Toronto), courtesy name Xueting, is one of the founding members of the Toronto Hanfu movement in 2006, and has been dedicated to the teaching and linking of the guqin and its players since 2005. She started the guqin through self-study in 2003, receiving a high-profile debut with a Gold medal in the non-Western Plucked Strings category of the Kiwanis Music Festival in February 2005. After the establishment of UTQA, she visited players of the Fanchuan, Mei’an, and Sichuan schools, particularly receiving instruction by Zeng Chengwei of the Sichuan Music Conservatory in 2009. In the following year, she published Standards of the Guqin under TQS.
楊雪亭是2006年多倫多漢服運動的創始成員之一，自2005年以來一直致力於古琴演奏及教學。2003年她自學古琴及研究，並於2005年2月在Kiwanis音樂節的非西方“撥弦”類中獲得了金牌，並獲得了很高的評價。多倫多大學古琴社成立後，她拜訪了泛川，梅庵派的演奏家，特別是在2009年受到四川音樂學院曾成偉的指導。次年，她在多倫多大學古琴社下出版了[古琴標準]。
Shanny Li (Alan’s student) is based out of the Midwest and has been learning qin for about a year and a half.
Alan Yip 葉沛霖
Alan grew up in Southern California where he studied erhu under acclaimed maestro, He Wangbao. With two decades of erhu performance experience, Alan Yip has actively delved into many regional and contemporary styles of playing, ranging from solo instrumental, orchestral, ensemble, to traditional Cantonese music and Cantonese opera.
Intrigued by its sound and history, Alan Yip began his studies of guqin as a pupil of famed pipa and guqin virtuoso, Lui Puiyuen. Eager to broaden his technique and aesthetics on guqin, he has since studied under leading masters as Gong Yi, Wu Ziying, Chen Changlin, and Dai Xiaolian. He has been invited to numerous concerts in such countries as the USA, China, and Malaysia, and is an active promoter of Chinese music in the U.S. and abroad. Besides Chinese classical music, he has studied Chinese court-style painting under the tutelage of Puxian Aisin-Gioro – cousin of the last emperor of China, Puyi. Alan holds a Master’s degree in Horticulture and Agronomy from the University of California, Davis.
Alan is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is musical instruments consultant to @fineguqins.