When was yo yo ma born

Zijn critici noemen hem een "muzikale alleseter", waarmee zij refereren aan de veelzijdigheid van zijn repertoire. Yo-Yo Ma waagt zich op meer gebieden dan de meeste klassieke cellisten.

In trouwde Ma met de violiste. Ze hebben twee kinderen: Nicholas en Emily. Yo-Yo Ma, utbildad vid Juilliard School, spelar bland annat i. Han har totalt givit ut ett tjugotal musikalbum, solo eller med andra. Han tvekar inte att diversifiera sig och att delta i eklektiska samarbeten.

Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, Ma was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world.

He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards. In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, he has recorded a wide variety of folk music, such as American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music.

He has been a Sony recording artist for three decades, and is considered one of Billboard's best classical sellers.

Ma plays a Venetian 17th century Montagnana cello and the Davidoff Stradivarius. In , Ma founded the Silk Road Project as a means to educate and study the culture and art that thrived on the Silk Road. The organization's vision, according to its website , is to "connect the world's neighborhoods by bringing together artists and audiences around the globe. In , Ma was given the opportunity to expand his audience beyond his wildest dreams: Film director Ang Lee asked him to play on the sound track for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , which went on to become an astounding success, winning four Academy Awards in —for best foreign-language film, art direction, cinematography and, most importantly for Ma, best original score.

But Ma has also found time to perform in front of the cameras on the small screen. Despite how some movies may represent it, classical music has also always been known as a source of solace during times of tragedy, and when the United States needed it most, Yo-Yo Ma delivered. A year after the September 11, , terrorist attacks on the nation, Ma was asked to play at the ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the tragic event. Today, Yo-Yo Ma is in demand as never before.

His classical recitals and experimental performances sell out regularly, and his willingness to charge ahead into the unknown and take chances has opened a door for a new generation of musicians. Ma has been married to longtime partner Jill Horner since The couple has a son and daughter.

The Ma family lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.

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The orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta , performed in Central Park. Ma was the first performer on September 11, , at the site of the World Trade Center, while the first of the names of the dead were read in remembrance on the first anniversary of the attack on the WTC.

He played the Sarabande from J. Bach 's Cello Suite No. While the quartet did play live, the music, played simultaneously over speakers and on television, was a recording made two days prior due to concerns over the cold weatherdamaging the instruments. Ma was quoted as saying, "A broken string was not an option.

It was wicked cold. The work is based on a poetic description written for the composer of the evolution of brain into mind by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and featured, at the premiere, a film of brain scans provided by Hanna Damasio and other images, coordinated with the music during the performance.

Pieces he performed included the Sarabande movement from J. On April 18, , Ma performed at an interfaith service to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Also, he and other musicians accompanied members of the Boston Children's Chorus in a hymn. On September 12, , Ma performed all six of J.

Bach 's cello suites at the Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles. After the first three suites, there was a "ten-minute pause" as the Bowl video screen described it. An estimated 17, in attendance also heard Ma perform an encore, a tribute to "cellist Pablo Casals , who as a year-old in discovered an old copy of the J.

Bach suites in a secondhand music store, bringing them to modern attention. Ma later appeared in the episode Puffless where he played a serenade and theme music.

Ma appeared twice on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and developed a friendship with creator and host Fred Rogers. Ma would later receive the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award. He also starred in the visual accompaniment to his recordings of J. Ma was often invited to press events by Apple Inc. Ma's J. Bach recordings were used in a memorial video released by Apple on the first anniversary of Jobs's death.

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