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Biography
Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works for cello, bringing communities together to explore culture’s role in society, or engaging unexpected musical forms, Yo-Yo strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.
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In concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Ricardo Muti
Yo-Yo Ma
Most recently, Yo-Yo began Our Common Nature, a cultural journey to celebrate the ways that nature can reunite us in pursuit of a shared future. Our Common Nature follows the Bach Project, a 36-community, six-continent tour of J. S. Bach’s cello suites paired with local cultural programming. Both endeavors reflect Yo-Yo’s lifelong commitment to stretching the boundaries of genre and tradition to understand how music helps us to imagine and build a stronger society.
In Mumbai, 2019
At the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, 2019
Yo-Yo is an advocate for a future guided by human
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Yo-Yo Ma
American cellist (born 1955)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.
Musical artist
Yo-Yo Ma[a] (born October 7, 1955) is a French-American cellist.[1] Born to Chinese[2] parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 19 Grammy Awards.
In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, Ma has recorded a wide variety of folk music, such as American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music. He has also collaborated with artists from a diverse range of genres, including Bobby McFerrin, Carlos Santana, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, James Taylor, Miley Cyrus, Zakir Hus
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Yo-Yo Ma
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Ma plays the cello during the "Presentation of the Crystal Award" at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2008. | |
| Born | (1955-10-07) October 7, 1955 (age 69) Paris, France |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Cellist, composer, pedagogist |
| Instruments | Cello, piano, viola, violin |
| Years active | fl. ca. 1961–present |
| Labels | CBS, RCA, Sony Classical |
| Website | yo-yoma.com |
Yo-Yo Ma (born 7 October 1955) is a French-born ChineseAmericancellist. His family name is “Ma”, so his full Chinese name is “Ma Yo-yo”. Yo-Yo Ma is one of the world’s greatest cellists. He plays many kinds of music, not just classical, and he has performed for three presidents of the United States.
Life
[change | change source]Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris. His parents were Chinese. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a professor of music. His family moved to New York when he was four years old.
Ma began studying violin when he was very small. He also played the vi
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