Cheng Yu 程玉 is a musician of Chinese descent, originally from China, but now resides in London, UK. She specializes in pipa, the Chinese four-stringed pear-shaped lute, but also plays the guqin, the seven-stringed zither. She has completed a PhD at SOAS on Ancient Xi'an Music and regularly performs throughout the UK. A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... The pipa 琵琶 (pinyin pípá) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument. ... The Guqin 古琴 (ancient qin, pronounced goo chin) is the modern name for a plucked 7 string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family. ... School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 primarily as an institution to train British administrators for colonial postings, and has grown into one of the worlds foremost institutions for the study of Asia and Africa. ...

In her recent project in 2005, she sucessfully re-created a modern version of the lost Tang Dynasty five-stringed pipa. Also the name of a rock band. ...