王鹏，国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目“古琴艺术”代表性传承人，中国民族管弦乐学会乐器改革制作专业委员会会长，北京市非遗保护协会副会长，国家级非物质文化遗产保护研究基地——“钧天坊”创始人，当代斫琴与演奏兼善的古琴艺术家、美学空间设计师。
2008年北京奥运会开幕式所用古琴“师旷式—太古遗音”即出自王鹏之手。本真性传承与融会贯通的创新，是王鹏斫琴的精髓。曾修复唐宋百余张历史名琴，创作百余种新的琴式及不对称槽腹结构。其古琴曾在维也纳金色大厅、悉尼歌剧院、纽约卡内基音乐厅、耶路撒冷剧院等世界各地演奏，并作为国礼赠与国际友人。
王鹏亦精于古琴演奏，手法严谨细腻、气韵雄浑古朴；呈现音乐能量与文化修行之境。2010年创办当代以古琴为核心的“钧天云和”乐团，开创人文空间美学音乐会先河，成功巡演海内外。2018年于墨尔本艺术节上演古琴音乐舞剧《初无垠》，获得澳大利亚Green Room Award最佳音乐作曲和音乐设计奖，成为首位获奖的中国音乐家。
2009年创办古琴教育机构“钧天琴院”，倡导“琴者心也”、弘扬琴学琴道、生活美学与文化修行；通过生活美学来格物致知，文化修行来知行合一；将“清微淡远、中正平和”的琴学思想更多元化地融入当代生活；让古琴艺术的“天地精神”与“人文情怀”更鲜活地传承与弘扬。
王鹏多年从事琴学研究，著有《钧天斫琴录》、《习琴精要》、《古琴传统丝弦的恢复与制作》，古琴音乐专辑《皋鸣钧天》、《钧天云和》、《无痕》等。主持出版有《自远堂琴谱》、《天闻阁琴谱》、《刘少椿琴谱墨迹选》、《古琴-广陵琴社百年纪念专刊》等。曾在北大、清华、北京师范大学、中央美术学院、厦门大学、国子监博物馆、南京博物院、国家大剧院经典艺术讲堂以及美国哥伦比亚大学、加州大学、荷兰、丹麦、德国、新西兰的孔子学院等海内外院校进行专题讲座。
作为大国外交的重要名片，王鹏及钧天坊曾受国家文旅部、北京市文旅局、驻外使领馆海外文化中心等委派，以展览、讲座、音乐会、美学空间等形式走访过亚洲、欧洲、美洲、澳洲、非洲等二十多个国家及地区。曾参加文化部非遗大展、两岸非遗联展、国家大剧院古琴与生活美学展、沙特阿拉伯遗产文化节、澳大利亚墨尔本艺术节、以色列艺术节、英国南岸艺术节、国家艺术基金《乘物游心-中国古琴艺术与当代生活美学》展演、UNESCO亚太中心新西兰非遗展演等，参加中非论坛、第三届一带一路峰会等重要外交活动。实践出一条非物质文化遗产与当代生活相融合、东方礼乐文化与世界文明分享的传承与发展之路。
Wang Peng is a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project "Guqin Art," President of the Instrument Reform and Production Professional Committee of the China National Orchestra Society, Vice President of the Beijing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, founder of the national intangible cultural heritage protection research base "Jun Tian Fang," and a contemporary guqin artist as well as an aesthetic space designer who excels in both guqin crafting and performance.
The guqin "Shikuang-style – Tai Gu Yi Yin" used in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was crafted by Wang Peng. The essence of his guqin-making lies in preserving authentic traditions while achieving innovative integration. He has restored over a hundred historically significant guqins from the Tang and Song dynasties, developed more than a hundred new guqin designs, and created asymmetric soundbox structures. His guqins have been performed at world-renowned venues including Vienna's Golden Hall, Sydney Opera House, New York's Carnegie Hall, and Jerusalem Theatre, and have been presented as state gifts to international friends.
Wang Peng is also an accomplished guqin performer, renowned for his meticulous and refined techniques as well as his powerful yet rustic musical expression, which conveys both musical energy and a realm of cultural cultivation. In 2010, he founded the contemporary guqin-centered orchestra "Jun Tian Yun He," pioneering a new genre of humanistic spatial aesthetic concerts that have successfully toured internationally. In 2018, he presented the guqin musical dance drama Chu Wu Yin at the Melbourne Arts Festival, winning Australia's Green Room Award for Best Music Composition and Music Design, becoming the first Chinese musician to receive this honor.
In 2009, the Guqin education institution "Jun Tian Qin Yuan" was established to advocate that "the guqin embodies the human heart," promote the study of guqin artistry and its philosophy, as well as life aesthetics and cultural cultivation; to acquire knowledge through the study of life aesthetics and achieve unity between knowledge and practice through cultural cultivation; to integrate the guqin philosophy of "subtle elegance, modest profundity, balance, and harmony" more diversely into contemporary life; and to ensure the vibrant inheritance and promotion of the "heaven-earth spirit" and "humanistic sentiment" inherent in guqin art.
Wang Peng has dedicated many years to the study of guqin music and authored works such as Records of Jun Tian's Guqin Craftsmanship, Essentials of Guqin Practice, and Restoration and Production of Traditional Silk Strings for the Guqin. He has also released musical albums including Gao Ming Jun Tian, Jun Tian Yun He, and No Trace. His editorial contributions include Zi Yuan Tang Guqin Scores, Tian Wen Ge Guqin Scores, Selected Ink Manuscripts of Liu Shaochun's Guqin Scores, and the special commemorative issue Guqin: A Centennial Anniversary of the Guangling Guqin Society. Wang has delivered specialized lectures at institutions worldwide, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Xiamen University, the Imperial College Museum, Nanjing Museum, the Classic Art Lecture Series at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as Confucius Institutes at Columbia University, the University of California, and in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and New Zealand.
As a significant hallmark of major-country diplomacy, Wang Peng and Jun Tianfang have been dispatched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and overseas cultural centers of Chinese embassies and consulates to visit over 20 countries and regions across Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Africa through various formats such as exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and aesthetic spaces. They have participated in numerous events including the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture, cross-strait intangible cultural heritage joint exhibitions, the Guqin and Life Aesthetics Exhibition at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Saudi Arabia Heritage Culture Festival, the Melbourne Art Festival in Australia, the Israel Art Festival, the South Bank Art Festival in the UK, the National Art Fund's performance series "Traveling Through Objects: China's Guqin Art and Contemporary Life Aesthetics," and UNESCO Asia-Pacific Center's New Zealand intangible cultural heritage showcase, as well as key diplomatic activities such as the China-Africa Forum and the Third Belt and Road Summit. Their work has forged a path for integrating intangible cultural heritage with contemporary life and sharing Eastern ritual music culture with global civilizations.（注：来自智能翻译）
