Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, 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.
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, 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 Hussain, and Sting.
Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize in 1978, The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Davidov cello, made in 1712 by Antonio Stradivari.
Ma's mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, composer and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University (now relocated in Taoyuan, Taiwan; predecessor of the present-day Nanjing University and Southeast University). They both migrated from the Republic of China to France during the Chinese Civil War. Ma's sister, Yeou-Cheng, played the violin and piano professionally before obtaining a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and becoming a pediatrician. The family moved to Boston when Ma was seven. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
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Release Date:25/03/2025
Half Moon
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Release Date:06/03/2025
Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée
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Release Date:07/12/2024
Music by John Williams
Character:Self - Cellist
Release Date:01/11/2024
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Character:Yo-Yo Ma
Release Date:23/11/2022
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Character:Self - Cellist
Release Date:28/12/2018
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Character:Self - Musician and Fred's Friend
Release Date:29/06/2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
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Release Date:06/03/2018
The Words That Built America
Character:Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Release Date:04/07/2017
Blue Gold: American Jeans
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Release Date:04/04/2017
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
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Release Date:10/06/2016
Yo Yo Ma: The Bach Project– Six Cello Suites
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Release Date:10/09/2015
The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live
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Release Date:25/05/2012
How to Grow a Band
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Release Date:13/04/2012
Chris Botti in Boston
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Release Date:31/03/2009
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
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Release Date:20/10/2004
Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano
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Release Date:11/02/2003
Appalachian Journey Live In Concert
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Release Date:08/08/2000
Appointment With The Wise Old Dog
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Release Date:01/01/1998
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
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Release Date:19/12/1997
Struggle for Hope
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Release Date:25/10/1997
Six Gestures
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Release Date:25/10/1997
Falling Down Stairs
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Release Date:24/10/1997
Sarabande
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Release Date:24/10/1997
Bach Cello Suite #1: The Music Garden
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Release Date:23/10/1997
Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of the Carceri
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Release Date:23/10/1997
Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy
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Release Date:07/09/1995
Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration
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Release Date:16/12/1993
Ozawa
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Release Date:01/01/1985
Television Appearances
Deeper Look from New York
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Desus & Mero
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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The Colbert Report
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The West Wing
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Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach
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Arthur
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Frasier
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The Simpsons
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Le Grand Échiquier
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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