杨先生初名杨琛伦，字克定，原籍广东番禺。一八九八年十二月二十四日出生于上海，一九九○年二月一日逝世于广州。幼年居沪上时，因在精武体育会闻琴家吴纯白操缦，遂爱上琴道，先后师从王绍贞、卢家炳及中山郑健侯，获授《古冈遗谱》等岭南派琴曲。新中国成立后，杨氏定居广州，任广东文史研究馆研究员，从事岭南琴学之研究；并兼任广州音乐专科学校客座古琴教席，又在文史夜校及家居中扶掖后学。杨新伦因学得岭南琴技，将刚健、爽朗、明快的琴风精髓灌注于演绎中，得郑师真传名曲《乌夜啼》，搏得琴界雅号“杨乌夜”之美称。
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”.