闵惠芬（1945年11月—），江苏宜兴人。8岁开始学习二胡，12岁考入上海音乐学院附中，后来跳级升入上海音乐学院本科民乐系，曾先后在上海乐团、中国艺术团、上海艺术团等担任二胡独奏员，1984年后调入上海民族乐团，担任独奏。她曾于1963年第四届"上海之春"全国二胡比赛中荣获一等奖，显露了她的艺术才华。自1979年起，她先后在美国、加拿大、法国等十多个国家和地区演出，被评价为"世界最著名的弦乐演奏家之一"、"连休止符也充满音乐"。她广泛涉猎民间戏曲音乐，如江南丝竹、潮州音乐、京剧、越剧、词曲音乐等等，从中吸取精华，不断探索二胡演奏技法并丰富二胡的表现力。她的演奏激情洋溢，对于乐曲内涵的处理细腻传神。1973年所演奏的东北民间乐曲《江河水》，成为其代表作。1980年首演的大型二胡协奏曲《长城随想》获得高度的评价和广泛流传。此外，她还从事二胡独奏曲的创作，如《洪湖人民的心愿》（根据歌剧音乐编曲）、《阳关三叠》（古曲改编）、《宝玉哭灵》（根据越剧音乐编曲）、二胡与乐队《音诗─心曲》（与瞿春泉合作），都有一定影响力，并被列入高等音乐学院的教材。

MinHuiFen (November 1945), jiangsu yixing. 8 years old began to learn erhu, 12 years old was admitted to the Shanghai music institute accessorial middle school, then advanced placement into Shanghai music college undergraduate instruments, has the orchestra in Shanghai, China's art troupe, Shanghai art troupe as erhu solo, transferred to Shanghai national orchestra after 1984, served as a solo. She had the fourth "Shanghai spring" in 1963, the national erhu won the first prize in the competition, showed her artistic talent. Since 1979, she has been in the United States, Canada, France, more than 10 countries and regions such as performance, be judged as "one of the most famous string player of the world", "even the rest also is full of music". She widely with folk opera music, such as jiangnan silk, chaozhou music and Beijing Opera and shaoxing opera, music, etc., and learn the essence, constantly explore the erhu playing techniques and rich erhu expressive force. Her playing passion for music connotation of processing and fine feeling. In 1973 from the northeast folk music "river water", as its representative works. Premiered in 1980 large erhu concerto "the Great Wall scribblings" won the high degree of evaluation and widely circulated. Besides, she also engaged in the creation of the erhu solo, such as "the wishes of the people" (according to the opera music arranger), the departure at the fron (adaptation) living museum, the treasure jade KuLing (based on the shaoxing opera music arranger), erhu, and band the poem to ─ heart melodies "(cooperation with QuChunQuan), has a certain influence, and are included in the textbook of higher college of music.