莊思遠（1946生），法國號演奏家、音樂教育家。出生於臺南新營。自幼熱愛音樂，1964年以小號主修考上國立臺灣藝術專科學校（今國立臺灣藝術大學），後轉為法國號主修。1972年退伍後，考取臺灣電視公司交響樂團，同年，前往國立維也納音樂學院深造，1978年畢業即返國貢獻所長。曾任維也納史大巴克樂團法國號首席、維也納青年愛樂樂團巡迴、臺灣省立交響樂團（今國立臺灣交響樂團）法國號首席等職務。回臺先後任教於國立臺灣藝術專科學校、國立藝術學院（今國立臺北藝術大學）音樂學系等。莊思遠豐富的演奏生涯，堪稱全臺最活躍的法國號演奏家之一，除了積極的演出活動外，還出版有關法國號的著作《法國號吹奏技巧研究》等書，2012年退休後，繼續推廣及教學，將法國號發揚光大。

Chuang Szu-Yuan, French Horn musician/educator, is effectively the most active French Horn players in Taiwan. Born in 1946 in Xinying, Tainan, Zhuang has loved and learned music since young, being good at piano and trumpet before majoring in French horn at National Vienna Conservatory of Music. He had been lead French horn of a Vienna-based orchestra, on tour with Vienna Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and lead French horn of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. Since coming back to Taiwan, Zhuang has held teaching posts successively at Department of Music, National Taiwan University of Arts and then Music Department and Institute of Orchestral Instruments, National Taipei University of Arts.