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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma has been played on NTS shows including RVNG Intl. Presents Friends & Fiends, with Flight Of The Bumblebee first played on 21 February 2021.

Yo-Yo Ma is a world-famous Chinese-French-American cellist. He is considered one of the best cellists in the world and has made over 50 albums.

Ma was born to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976.

Yo-Yo Ma has been called "the most omnivorous of all cellists" by critics, and indeed possesses a far more eclectic repertoire than typical for a classical player. He has performed and recorded Baroque pieces on period instruments, American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the Argentinian tangos of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian music, soundtracks to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Philip Glass's Naqoyqatsi, in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire. His latest CD is a collaboration with other musicians for the Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack.

Yo-Yo Ma's main performance instrument is a very fine 1733 Montagnana cello. He also plays the Davidoff Stradivarius from 1712, which was also played by Jacqueline du Pre.

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma has been played on NTS shows including RVNG Intl. Presents Friends & Fiends, with Flight Of The Bumblebee first played on 21 February 2021.

Yo-Yo Ma is a world-famous Chinese-French-American cellist. He is considered one of the best cellists in the world and has made over 50 albums.

Ma was born to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976.

Yo-Yo Ma has been called "the most omnivorous of all cellists" by critics, and indeed possesses a far more eclectic repertoire than typical for a classical player. He has performed and recorded Baroque pieces on period instruments, American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the Argentinian tangos of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian music, soundtracks to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Philip Glass's Naqoyqatsi, in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire. His latest CD is a collaboration with other musicians for the Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack.

Yo-Yo Ma's main performance instrument is a very fine 1733 Montagnana cello. He also plays the Davidoff Stradivarius from 1712, which was also played by Jacqueline du Pre.

Original source Last.fm

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Suite No. 6 In D Major, BWV 1012
J.S. Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
CBS Masterworks1983
Don Quixote TrV184 (Op. 35) - Fantastische Variationen Über Ein Thema Ritterlichen Charakters = Fantastic Variations On A Them Of Knightly Character
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Strauss, Andris Nelsons, Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma
Deutsche Grammophon2022
Grace
Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma
Sony Masterworks1992
Flight Of The Bumblebee
Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma
Sony Masterworks1992
Sarabande
J.S. Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
CBS Masterworks1983
The Swan
Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott
Sony Classical2015