周小燕（1917年8月17日—），出生在湖北武汉。1938年赴法国学习声乐。经过8年的刻苦学习，她出现在巴黎这个国际大都市的舞台上。1946年7月，周小燕在卢森堡举办首场独唱音乐会，被称为"中国之莺"。1947年6月，她参加了世界乐坛盛会——首届"布拉格之春"。紧接着在捷克斯洛伐克的5大城市巡演，誉满欧洲。后回国担任上海音乐学院声乐系教师。50多年来，周小燕培养了大批优秀声乐人才，有的在国内各高等院校任教，有的活跃在国内外歌剧音乐舞台上，有的在国内外各类国际性大赛中夺冠，如刘捷、廖昌永、张建一、高曼华、张奕、朱金专等。2000-2002年，在她主持下，在上海先后连续举办了三届国际歌剧大师班，邀请美国大都会歌剧院琼?道尔门等十多位专家执教，促进了中西音乐文化交流。作为中国美声声乐教育大师，她荣获了中国音乐艺术最高荣誉奖"金钟奖"，法国政府授予的"法国国家军官勋章"等。

Zhou Xiaoyan (August 17, 1917 -),born in Hubei,wuhan.In 1938 went to France to learnvocal music.After 8 years of hard working,she appeared in the international metropolis of Parisstage.In 1946 July, Zhou Xiaoyan in theLuxemburg held the firstsolo concert,known as the"Chinesewarbler". In 1947June,she participated in a worldmusic event-- the first "Prague spring". Followed by atour in Czechoslovakia's 5 largest city, famousin europe.After returning from the teachers ofthe vocal Department of Shanghai Conservatory Of Music.Over the past 50 years, Zhou Xiaoyanhas trained a large number of outstanding vocal talents, someteaching in domesticuniversities and colleges, and someactive in the domestic and foreignopera music scene,winning somein various domestic and international internationalcompetitions, such as Liu Jie, Liao Changyong, Zhang, Gao Manhua, Zhang Yi, tryZhu Jinzhuan.2000-2002,in her chair, in Shanghai hasheld three consecutive session of the InternationalOpera master class, inviteAmerica Metropolitan OperaJoan Doyle door10 expertcoaching,promoted the cultural exchange of Chinese and Western music. AsChinese bel cantovocal music education master, shewon the ChinaMusic Art Award"Golden Bell Award",the French government awarded the"Medal ofthe French national officer" etc..