楊先生初名楊琛倫，字克定，原籍廣東番禺。一八九八年十二月二十四日出生於上海，一九九○年二月一日逝世於廣州。幼年居滬上時，因在精武體育會聞琴家吳純白操縵，遂愛上琴道，先後師從王紹貞、盧家炳及中山鄭健侯，獲授《古岡遺譜》等嶺南派琴曲。新中國成立後，楊氏定居廣州，任廣東文史研究館研究員，從事嶺南琴學之研究；並兼任廣州音樂專科學校客座古琴教席，又在文史夜校及家居中扶掖後學。楊新倫因學得嶺南琴技，將剛健、爽朗、明快的琴風精髓灌注於演繹中，得鄭師真傳名曲《烏夜啼》，搏得琴界雅號「楊烏夜」之美稱。
YANG Xin-lun
YANG Xin-lun was born on December 24, 1898 in Shanghai and passed away on February 1, 1990 in Guangzhou. His first name was Chen-lun, also called Ke-ding and his ancestral home was Panyu, Guangdong province. When he was young, he lived in Shanghai, he was attracted by the performance of the qin solo by WU Chun-bai and began to love with the qin. Then he learned it from WANG Shao-zhen, LU Jia-bing and ZHENG Jian-hou on the qin scores of the Lingnan School. In 1950’s, he settled down in Guangzhou and employed by the Literature and History Research Institute of Guangdong on the research of the qin music of Lingnan. He was also a qin tutor of the Guangzhou Conservatory. In result of the study of Lingnan qin art and well received the techniques from ZHENG Jian-hou, he won a fame on playing the Midnight Crow as “YANG Wu-ye”.