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Yo-Yo Ma (zh-cp|c=馬友友|p=Mǎ Yǒuyǒu) (born October 7, 1955) is a world-famous French people|French-Chinese-American cellist. He is considered one of the best cellists in the world.
He was born in Paris to China|Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu (盧雅文), was a singer, while his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma (馬孝駿), was a conducting|conductor and composer. Ma began to study the violin, then the viola, before taking up the cello. His family moved to New York City|New York when he was seven years old.
Ma was a child prodigy, appearing on United States|American television at the age of eight in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. He entered the Juilliard School, and then went to Harvard University (where he was in the Currier House dormitory), but was questioning whether he should continue his studies until, in the 1970s, Pablo Casals's performing inspired him.
Image:yoyoma_rice.jpg|thumb|230px|left|Ma and Condoleezza Rice after performing a duet.
Since that time, he has steadily gained in fame, and has performed with most of the world's major orchestras. His recordings and performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello are particularly acclaimed, and he has also played a good deal of chamber music, often with the pianist Emanuel Ax.
His main performance instrument is a very fine Montagnana cello from Venice, made in 1733. One of his other cellos, the "Davidov Stradivarius", was previously played regularly by Jacqueline du Pr?? and left to him upon her death. It is currently set up in a Authentic performance|Baroque manner, since Ma exclusively plays Baroque music on it. He also owns a cello made by the American luthier firm Moes & Moes, as well as a Graphite-reinforced_plastic|carbon-fiber cello made by Boston company Luis & Clark.
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 Music of China|Chinese melodies, the Argentinian Tango music|tangos of Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian music, the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Philip Glass's minimalism|minimalist score of Naqoyqatsi in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire.
He currently plays in his own project, The Silk Road Ensemble, and records on the Sony Classical label.
Ma married his long-time girlfriend, Jill Hornor, a violinist, in 1978. They have two children, Nicholas and Emily. Ma's elder sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma (馬友乘), also born in Paris, is a violinist, married to Michael Dadap, a New York guitarist.
Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur (cartoon)|Arthur, as well as on The West Wing, Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Ma has also been seen with Apple Computer and Pixar Chief executive officer|CEO Steve Jobs. Yo-Yo Ma is often invited to press events for Steve Jobs's companies, even performing on stage during a Apple Keynote presented by Mr. Jobs.
(Discography courtesy of www.Yo-YoMa.com, with a few minor additions)
Albums
2005:
- Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
2004:
2003:
- Master and Commander: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2002:
- Naqoyqatsi: Original Motion Picture Souindtrack
- Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams
- Silk Road Journeys - When Strangers Meet
2001:
- Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology
2000:
- Inspired by Bach, Volume 2 (DVD)
- Inspired by Bach, Volume 3 (DVD)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Inspired by Bach, Volume 1 (DVD)
- Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (The Fantasy Album)
- Appalachian Journey Live in Concert (VHS and DVD)
- Dvorak: Piano Quartet No.2, Sonatina in G, Romantic Pieces
1999:
- John Williams Greatest Hits 1969-1999
- Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Cello Sonata Op.78
1998:
- Tavener: The Protecting Veil
- Korngold/ Schmidt: Music for Strings and Piano Left Hand
- Inspired by Bach: "Falling Down Stairs" -- Cello Suite No.3
- Inspired by Bach: "Struggle For Hope" -- Cello Suite No.5
- Inspired by Bach: "The Music Garden" -- Cello Suite No.1
- Inspired by Bach: "Sarabande" -- Cello Suite No.4
- Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri" -- Cello Suite No.2
- Inspired by Bach: "Six Gestures" -- Cello Suite No.6
1997:
- Mozart: The Piano Quartets
1996:
- Premieres: Cello Concertos by Danielpour, Kirchner and Rouse
- Schubert and Boccherini String Quintets
- Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata
1995:
- Concertos from the New World
- Greatest Hits: Saint-Saens
- Tackling the Monster: Marsalis on Practice (VHS)
- Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart: Clarinet Trios
1994:
- Greatest Hits: Tchaikovsky
- Beethoven, Schumann: Piano Quartets
- Dvorak In Prague: A Celebration
1993:
- Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood (VHS)
1992:
- Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante; Tchaikovsky: Rococco Variations; Andante Cantabile
- Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony; Bacchanale; Marche Militaire; Carnaval des animaux; Danse macabre
1991:
- Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev: Cello Sonatas
- Brahms: Double Concerto; Berg: Chamber Concerto
- Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No.1; Piano Concerto No.2; Violin Concerto No.3
1990:
- Brahms: The Piano Quartets
- Mozart: Serenade, K.361; Sonata for Bassoon and Cello, K.292
- Strauss: Don Quixote; Die Liebe der Danae
1989:
- Great Cello Concertos: Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saens, Schumann
- Strauss, Britten: Cello Sonatas
- Shostakovich: Quartet No.15; Gubaidulina: Rejoice
- Shostakovich: Symphony No.5; Cello Concerto
- Barber: Cello Concerto; Britten: Symphony for Cello andamp; Orchestra
1988:
- Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2; Cello Sonata
- Schumann: Cello Concerto; Adagio and Allegro; Fantasiestucke; more
- Brahms: Double Concerto; Piano Quartet No.3
1987:
- Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas
- Boccherini: Cello Concerto; J.C. Bach: Sinfionia Concertante
- Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor; Schubert: String Quartet No.15
1986:
- Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.4; Variations
- Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Cello Concerto
- Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Silent Woods; Rondo
1985:
- Mozart: Divertimento, K.563
- Elgar, Walton: Cello Concertos
- Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites
- Schubert: Quintet in C Major
1984:
- Haydn: Three Favorite Concertos -- Cello, Violin and Trumpet Concertos
- Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
- Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos.3 and 5
- Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio
- Shostakovich, Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos
1983:
- Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op.5, Nos.1 & 2
- Saint-Saens, Lalo: Cello Concertos
- Kreisler, Paganini: Works
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
- Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Johannes Brahms|Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F (Grammy Awards of 1986|1986)
- Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C & Variations (Grammy Awards of 1987|1987)
- Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma & Isaac Stern for Johannes Brahms|Brahms: Piano Quartets (Opp. 25 and 26) (Grammy Awards of 1992|1992)
- Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Johannes Brahms|Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Grammy Awards of 1993|1993)
- Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Richard Stoltzman for Johannes Brahms|Brahms/Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart: Clarinet Trios (Grammy Awards of 1996|1996)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):
- David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Samuel Barber|Barber: Cello Concerto, Op. 22/Benjamin Britten|Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 (Grammy Awards of 1990|1990)
- Lorin Maazel (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (Grammy Awards of 1993|1993)
- David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Baltimore Orchestra for The New York Album - Works of Stephen Albert|Albert, B??la Bart??k|Bart??k & Ernest Bloch|Bloch (Grammy Awards of 1995|1995)
- David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Philadelphia Orchestra for Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works of Richard Danielpour|Danielpour, Leon Kirchner|Kirchner, Christopher Rouse|Rouse) (Grammy Awards of 1998|1998)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra):
- Yo-Yo Ma for Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites (Grammy Awards of 1985|1985)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition:
- Stephen Albert (composer), David Zinman (conductor) & Yo-Yo Ma for Albert: Cello Concerto (Grammy Awards of 1995|1995)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album:
- Steven Epstein (music producer)|Steven Epstein (producer), David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Philadelphia Orchestra for Premieres - Cello Concertos (Works of Richard Danielpour|Danielpour, Leon Kirchner|Kirchner, Christopher Rouse|Rouse) (Grammy Awards of 1998|1998)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album:
- Jorge Calandrelli (conductor) & Yo-Yo Ma for Soul of the Tango - The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Grammy Awards of 1999|1999)
- Steven Epstein (music producer)|Steven Epstein (producer), Richard King (engineer), Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer & Mark O'Connor for Appalachian Journey (Grammy Awards of 2001|2001)
- Jorge Calandrelli (conductor) & Yo-Yo Ma for Obrigado Brazil performed by various artists (Grammy Awards of 2004|2004)
- In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Glenn Gould Prize.
- On 2005-05-31, Ma was awarded an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Princeton University.
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