Cheng Yu (musician)

In 2005, she re-created a modern version of the lost Tang dynasty five-stringed pipa, based on the study of old Tang dynasty pipas and lutes from the East Asian cultures.

[1] She is one of the founding members of the UK Chinese Ensemble (established in 1998)[2] and of the London Youlan Qin Society (inaugurated in 2003).

[3] Cheng Yu was born in Beijing, but grew up in Gansu Province in Northwest China when her family was exiled during the Cultural Revolution.

She also studied and graduated with distinction in the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in 1987 for the guqin.

She won the "outstanding pipa player" award in China in the same year she was selected as a pipa soloist in the China Central Orchestra of Chinese Music in Beijing.