古箏演奏家范上娥，一九四二年十月出生於上海市，原籍廣東潮陽，一九五四年，考入上海音樂學院附屬中學，主修鋼琴，一九五八年，轉學古箏，一九六一年，附中畢業，直升大學本科繼續學習。曾先後師從古箏大師王巽之、曹正、郭鷹等，有系統地學習了浙江、潮州、河南、山東等流派的箏曲，一九六六年，畢業於上海音樂學院。一九六七年，入北京中國電影樂團任演奏員，參與了許多電影、電視劇音樂的錄製，一九九八年，被評為國家一級演奏員，並擔任北京古箏研究會理事。曾先後赴日本、瑞士、瑞典、挪威、西班牙、前蘇聯、美國、韓國、新加坡等國訪問演出，一九八一年，出席了在香港舉辦的「亞洲作曲家大會及音樂節」，在開幕儀式上，與香港中樂團合作演奏了中國第一部古箏協奏曲《汨羅江幻想曲》。上世紀九十年代移居美國，現定居加拿大多倫多，從事古箏教學與演奏活動。
FAN Shang-e
FAN Shang-e was born in October 1942 in Shanghai and her ancestral home was in Caoyang, Guangdong province. In 1954, she was admitted to the affiliated middle school of Shanghai Conservatory, majored in the piano. In 1958, she changed the subject to learn the zheng until graduated with distinction from the conservatory in 1966. She studied various schools of zheng playing under the famous zheng masters WANG Xun-zi, CAO Zheng and GUO Ying which included the Zhejiang, Chaozhou, Henan and Shandong. In 1967, she joined the Chinese Movie Traditional Orchestra in Beijing and was appointed as national first grade performer in 1998. She was the director of the Beijing Guzheng Research Institute. She has performed extensively throughout Asia, Europe and North America. In 1981, she participated in the Asian Composer Conference and Music Festival in Hong Kong and premiered the Fantasia of River Miluo which was the first Chinese concerto piece of guzheng with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. She has resettled in Toronto of Canada since 1992.