張彩湘（1915-1991），鋼琴家、音樂教育家。出生於苗栗頭份，父親張福興有「近代臺灣第一位西洋音樂家」之稱譽。1932年隨父親張福興赴日，之後進入武藏野音樂專門學校鋼琴部就讀，隨德籍鋼琴家克羅彩（Leonid Kreutzer）專研鋼琴踏板法。1944年返國後，先後任教於臺中師範學校音樂科、新竹師範預科及國立臺灣師範大學。1946年創辦「臺北鋼琴專攻塾」，招收學生傳授琴藝，堅持德國樂派的嚴謹風格，且前後共舉辦十屆學生成果發表會，此難得的堅持，贏得樂界的深盼及肯定，因此被認為開創了臺灣戰後鋼琴教育的新道路，為當時教席中的第一把交椅。「執著於一」的信念，忠於原典的態度，張彩湘影響深遠。1981年，自任教超過30年的師大音樂學系專任退休，許多臺灣著名的鋼琴教授都出自其門下，作育英才無數。

ZHANG Cai-Xiang was born in Toufen, Miaoli in 1915. He went to Japan with his father, Zhang Fu-Xing, in 1932, and was soon enrolled in the piano department at Musashino Academia Musicae, with a minor in winds music. He returned to Taiwan in 1944 and started teaching in the music departments at Taichung Teachers College, the preparatory division at National Hsinchu University of Education and National Taiwan Normal University. Zhang Cai-Xiang also founded the Taipei Piano School, where he taught numerous students, bringing the strict and thorough teaching style of the German School to Taiwan. Zhang is often called “the father of Piano pedagogy” in Taiwan. Many of Taiwan’s currently well-known piano professors studied with Zhang. He passed away in Taipei in 1991.