【人物】 吳昆仁
|南管音樂家|
吳昆仁,南管音樂家;1917 年 11 月 6 日出生於北港,2005 年逝世。父親謝曲安排他與蔡福安學習南管唱曲,之後蔡福安帶他前往「集斌社」拜師學習,開始正式接觸南管樂器,師承金池,吳昆仁同他學習南管曲目的唱唸,及樂器琵琶、二絃。曾至高雄、臺北任教,並於1985年創立「華聲南樂團」;曾獲得教育部頒發民族藝術薪傳獎。
WU Kun-Ren was born in Beigang in 1917. His father, Xie Qu, arranged for him to study nanguan singing with the master nanguan vocalist Cai Fu-An, who eventually took him to Ji Fu Ensemble to study, which was when he started formally studying nanguan instruments. He studied the nanguan repertoire with Jin Chi, learning how to play the pi’pa and the erhu. He taught in Kaohsiung and Taipei, and established the Hua Sheng Nanguan Troupe in 1985. Wu was awarded the Ministry of Education’s National Arts Award. He died in 2005.