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Yo-Yo Ma

January 13, 2023

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.

Yo-Yo Ma (Chinese: 馬友友; pinyin: Mǎ Yǒuyǒu; born October 7, 1955) is a Chinese-American cellist.[2] Born in Paris to Chinese[3] parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and attended Columbia University and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards.

Yo-Yo Ma
馬友友
Yo-Yo Ma in 2019
Background information
Born (1955-10-07) October 7, 1955 (age 67)
Paris, France
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)
Instrument(s)Cello
Years active1961–present
Labels
Websiteyo-yoma.com

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 collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including the singer Bobby McFerrin, the guitarist Carlos Santana, Sérgio Assad and his brother, Odair, and the singer-songwriter-guitarist James Taylor. Ma's primary performance instrument is a 1733 Montagnana cello.

Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006.[4] He was awarded The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001,[5] the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, and the Polar Music Prize in 2012.[6] Ma was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.[7]

Early life and education

Ma's mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, composer[8] 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 Ma, played the violin and piano before obtaining a medical degree and becoming a pediatrician.[9] The family moved to New York City when Ma was seven.[10][11]

From the age of three, Ma played the violin, piano, and later viola, but settled on cello in 1960 at age four. When three-year-old Yo-Yo said he wanted a big instrument, his father went to see Etienne Vatelot, a foremost violin maker in Paris who, after a chat, lent him a 1/16th cello. He jokes that his first choice was the double bass due to its large size, but he compromised and took up cello instead. When Dr Ma realised that Yo-Yo was ready for a better teacher, a well-known cello instructor, Mme Michelle Lepinte, was selected. He began performing before audiences at age five and played for presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy when he was seven.[12][13] At age eight, he appeared on American television with his sister[14] in an event introduced by Leonard Bernstein. In 1964, Isaac Stern introduced them on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and they performed the Sonata of Sammartini. He attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Children's School, where he graduated at age 15.[15] He appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations.

Ma studied at The Juilliard School at age 19 with Leonard Rose and attended Columbia University, but dropped out. He later enrolled at Harvard College. Prior to entering Harvard, Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals. He spent four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival after meeting and falling in love with Mount Holyoke College sophomore and festival administrator Jill Hornor during his first summer there in 1972.[16]

Even before that time, Ma gained fame and performed with many of the world's major orchestras. He has also played chamber music, often with pianist Emanuel Ax, with whom he has a close friendship from their days at Juilliard. Ma received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1976,[17] and in 1991 received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.[18]

Career

 
Ma performs at the White House for American president Ronald Reagan, Crown Princess Michiko and Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, and Nancy Reagan, October 1987

In 1997, Ma was featured on John Williams' soundtrack to the Hollywood film Seven Years in Tibet. In 2000, he was heard on the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003. He collaborated with Williams again on the score for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha. He has also worked with Italian composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded Morricone's compositions of the Dollars Trilogy, including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Once Upon a Time in America, The Mission, and The Untouchables. He has recorded over 90 albums, 19 of which are Grammy Award winners. He received the Award of Excellence from New York's International Center.

In addition to his prolific musical career, Ma collaborated in 1999 with landscape architects to design a Bach-inspired garden. Known as the Music Garden, it interprets Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for unaccompanied cello (BWV 1007), where the garden's sections were designed to correspond with the suite's dance movements.[19] Toronto enthusiastically embraced the design, originally planned for Boston, and it was subsequently built in the Harbourfront (Toronto) neighborhood.[20]

Ma was named Peace Ambassador by then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in January 2006.[21] He is a founding member of the influential Chinese-American Committee of 100, which addresses the concerns of Americans of Chinese heritage.[22]

On November 3, 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Ma to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.[23] His music was featured in the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.[24][25][26] In 2010, President Obama announced that he would recognize Ma with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Ma received in February 2011.[27]

In 2010, Ma was named Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He launched the Citizen Musician initiative partnership in partnership with the orchestra's music director, Riccardo Muti.[28] Also in 2010, he appeared on a solo album by guitarist Carlos Santana, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, playing alongside Santana and singer India Arie on a Beatles classic, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

In 2015, Ma performed with singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor on three tracks of Taylor's chart-topping album Before This World: You And I Again. In 2019, Ma directed the orchestra at the annual Youth Music Culture Guangdong. Ma is represented by the independent artist management firm Opus 3 Artists.[29] Ma contributed to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021, by backing Miley Cyrus on a cover of the Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters".[30]

Silk Road Ensemble

Main article: Silkroad (arts organization)

Ma formed his own collective, the Silk Road Ensemble, named after the route across Asia which for more than 2,000 years was used for trade between Europe and China. His goal was to bring together musicians from diverse countries that were historically linked via the Silk Road.[31] The ensemble's recordings are issued on the Sony Classical label. He also founded the Silk Road Connect, an educational pilot program for children from middle schools in the United States, including New York City.[32]

Playing style

Ma has been referred to by critics as "omnivorous" and possesses an eclectic repertoire.[33] In addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire, he has recorded Baroque pieces using period instruments; American bluegrass music; traditional Chinese melodies, including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; the tangos of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla; Brazilian music, recording traditional and contemporary songs composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Pixinguinha; a collaboration with Bobby McFerrin (where Ma admitted to being terrified by McFerrin's improvisation); and the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass, in such works as the 2002 Naqoyqatsi.

Ma is known for his smooth, rich tone, soulful lyricism and virtuosity.[34] He released a cello recording of Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 24 for solo violin and Zoltán Kodály's Solo Sonata.

Instruments

Ma's primary performance instrument is "Petunia", a 1733 Domenico Montagnana cello valued in 2005 at US$2.5 million (US$3.5 million in 2021 prices). A student approached Ma after one of his classes in Salt Lake City and asked if the cello had a nickname. Ma replied, "No, but if I play for you, will you name it?" The student chose Petunia, and it stuck.[35] In 1999, Ma inadvertently left the cello in a taxicab in New York City, but it was quickly returned undamaged.[36] That year, when its neck was damaged during X-ray baggage inspection, he borrowed the Pawle Stradivarius cello from the Chimei Museum for a concert in Taiwan. The damage was repaired in time, but Ma played both Petunia and Pawle in the concert nonetheless.[37][38][39]

Another of Ma's cellos, the Davidov Stradivarius, was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pré, who bequeathed it to him. Du Pré voiced her frustration with the cello's "unpredictability", but Ma attributed du Pré's sentiment to her impassioned style of playing, adding that the Stradivarius cello must be "coaxed" by the player.[40] It was until recently set up in a Baroque manner, since Ma exclusively played Baroque music on it.

Ma also owns a modern cello made by Peter and Wendela Moes of Peißenberg, Germany, and one of carbon fiber by the Luis and Clark company of Boston.[41] Ma also plays on a Zygmuntowicz cello, which he takes on long tours and uses in major concert venues. According to Zygmuntowicz, he "wants to give [Ma] a reason to leave his Montagnana at home."[42]

Live performances

 
Ma with Condoleezza Rice after performing a duet at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards

On July 5, 1986, Ma performed in the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC Television.[43] The orchestra, with conductor Zubin Mehta, performed in Central Park.

Ma performed a duet with Condoleezza Rice at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards. He was the first performer on September 11, 2002 at the site of the World Trade Center, while the first of the names of the dead were read on the first anniversary of the attack on the WTC; he played the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite #5 in C Minor.[44] He performed a special arrangement of Sting's "Fragile" with Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also appeared as a Pennington Great Performers series artist with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra in 2005.

He performed John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, along with Itzhak Perlman (violin), Gabriela Montero (piano), and Anthony McGill (clarinet). While the quartet played live, the music, played simultaneously over speakers and on television, was a recording made two days prior due to concerns over the cold weather damaging the instruments. Ma said, "A broken string was not an option. It was wicked cold."[45]

On May 3, 2009, Ma performed the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe's "Self Comes to Mind" for solo cello and two percussionists with John Ferrari and Ayano Kataoka at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The work is based on a poetic description written for the composer of the evolution of brain into mind by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. A film of brain scans provided by Hanna Damasio, and other images, were coordinated with the performance.

 
Ma appearing at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in 2008

On August 29, 2009, Ma performed at the funeral mass for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Pieces he performed included the Sarabande movement from Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 and Franck's Panis angelicus with Plácido Domingo.[46]

On October 3, 2009, Ma appeared with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper at the National Arts Centre gala in Ottawa. Harper, a fan of The Beatles, played the piano and sang a rendition of "With a Little Help from My Friends" while Ma accompanied him on cello. On October 16, 2011, Ma performed at the memorial of Steve Jobs at Stanford University's Memorial Church.[47]

In 2011, Ma performed with American dancer Charles "Lil Buck" Riley in the United States and in China at the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture.[48]

On April 18, 2013, he performed at an interfaith service to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, where he played the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor. He and other musicians also accompanied members of the Boston Children's Chorus in a hymn.[49]

 
Ma's performance at Paranal Observatory, home of the Very Large Telescope[50]

On September 9, 2015, Ma performed all six of Bach's cello suites at the Royal Albert Hall (London) as part of the BBC Proms Season.

On September 12, 2017, Ma performed all six of 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). The audience of around 17,000 also heard him play an encore, a tribute to "cellist Pablo Casals, who as a 13-year-old in 1890 discovered an old copy of the Bach suites in a secondhand music store, bringing them to modern attention. Ma's memorable last words were, "If there are any 13-year-here—don't throw anything away."[51]

On November 11, 2018, Ma performed at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with violinist Renaud Capuçon, in front of a crowd of world leaders during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.[52]

On May 1, 2019, he performed at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert. He said that his interest in astronomy motivated him to visit and perform there.

On June 20, 2019, Ma performed the Bach Complete Cello Suites in plein air at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. The free performance attracted what might have been his largest audience, with a pavilion capacity of 11,000, and many thousands more listening from surrounding Millennium Park.

On January 20, 2021, Ma's performance of "Amazing Grace"—pre-recorded due to the COVID-19 pandemic—was played during the inauguration of Joe Biden.[53][54] In March 2021, Ma played "Ave Maria" in an impromptu waiting room concert, after receiving his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts.[55][56]

On September 14, 2021, Ma again performed Bach's six cello suites at the Hollywood Bowl, this time without intermission, pausing only briefly for applause between suites, and to announce his dedications for two of them.

Media appearances

Ma appeared as himself in an episode ("My Music Rules") of the animated children's television series Arthur, and on The West Wing (the episode "Noël"), where he played the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No.1 at a Congressional Christmas party. He made five appearances on Sesame Street, all of which first aired during the show's 17th season in 1986. He appeared in The Simpsons episode "Puffless", where he played a serenade and theme music. Ma's likeness appeared in another Simpsons episode, "Missionary: Impossible", but he was played by regular Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria rather than Ma himself. Ma appeared twice on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, developed a friendship with creator and host Fred Rogers, and later received the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award.

He also starred in the visual accompaniment to his recordings of Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.

Ma was often invited to press events by Apple Inc. and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, performed during the company's major events, and appeared in a commercial for the Macintosh computer. Ma's Bach recordings were used in a memorial video released by Apple on the first anniversary of Jobs's death.[57]

Ma was a guest on the "Not My Job" segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on April 7, 2007, where he won for listener Thad Moore.[58]

On October 27, 2008, Ma appeared as a guest and performer on The Colbert Report.[59] He was also one of the show's guests on November 1, 2011, where he performed songs from the album The Goat Rodeo Sessions with musicians Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile.[60] He also performed several of Bach's cello suites for the 2012 film Bill W. On October 5, 2015, he appeared on Colbert's new program, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in support of ballerina Misty Copeland, and prematurely celebrating his 60th birthday.

In August 2018, Ma appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts.[61]

On June 19, 2020, the same group of musicians who recorded The Goat Rodeo Sessions released a second album, Not Our First Goat Rodeo.

On September 1, 2020, the same group performed a virtual concert of some songs from Not Our First Goat Rodeo on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts.[62]

On June 13, 2021, Ma was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[63] His musical choices included "Tin Tin Deo" by the Oscar Peterson Trio and "Podmoskovnye Vechera - Moscow Nights" by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi. He selected as his book the 24 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and as his luxury item a Swiss Army knife. He revealed that his career in music felt like a "gift" after scoliosis threatened his ability to play in his 20s.[64][65]

Ma makes a cameo appearance as himself in the 2022 Netflix film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.[66]

Personal life

Since 1978, Ma has been married to Jill Hornor, an arts consultant.[67] They have two children, Nicholas and Emily.[11][68] Although he personally considers it the "worst epithet he's ever faced", he was "tagged" in 2001 as "Sexiest Classical Musician" by People.[69] He has continued to receive such accolades over the years, including from AARP in 2012.[70] He has also been praised as a person of unquestionable character, and singled out for his humble spirit, self-effacing manner, and humanitarianism.[71]

According to research presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. for the PBS series Faces of America, a relative hid the Ma family genealogy in his home in China to save it from destruction during the Cultural Revolution. Ma's paternal ancestry can be traced back 18 generations to the year 1217. The genealogy was compiled in the 18th century by an ancestor, tracing everyone with the surname Ma, through the paternal line, back to one common ancestor in the 3rd century BC. Ma's generation name, Yo, was decided by his fourth great grand-uncle, Ma Ji Cang, in 1755.[72][73] DNA research revealed that Ma is distantly related to actress Eva Longoria.[74]

Aside from English, Ma is fluent in Chinese and French.[75][76]

Discography

Further information: Yo-Yo Ma discography

Ma's albums include recordings of cello concertos (including, among others, Shostakovich, Brahms, Elgar, and Haydn), sonatas for cello and piano, Bach's cello suites, and a variety of chamber music. He has also recorded in non-classical styles, notably in collaboration with Bobby McFerrin, Chris Botti, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, and Chris Thile.[77][78]

Awards and recognition

Grammy Award

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:

  • 1986 Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor Op. 38, and F Op. 99 (RCA 17022)
  • 1987 Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C & Variations (CBS 42121)
  • 1992 Brahms: Piano Quartets Op. 25, Op. 26 (Sony 45846)
  • 1993 Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Sony 48191)
  • 1996 Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios (Sony 57499)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance:

  • 1990 Barber: Cello Concerto, Op. 22/Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 (CBS 44900)
  • 1993 Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante/Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (Sony 48382)
  • 1995 The New York Album – Works of Albert, Bartók & Bloch (Sony 57961)
  • 1998 Yo-Yo Ma Premieres – Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse (Sony Classical 66299)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance:

  • 1985 Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites (CBS 37867)

Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition:

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album:

  • 1998 Yo-Yo Ma Premieres – Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse (Sony Classical 66299)

Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album:

Grammy Award for Best Folk Album:

Grammy Award for Best World Music Album:

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:

  • 2022 Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope and Tears – Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax

Honorary doctorates

Others

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In this Chinese name the family name is Ma Yo Yo Ma Chinese 馬友友 pinyin Mǎ Yǒuyǒu born October 7 1955 is a Chinese American cellist 2 Born in Paris to Chinese 3 parents and educated in New York City he was a child prodigy performing from the age of four and a half He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and attended Columbia University and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards Yo Yo Ma馬友友Yo Yo Ma in 2019Background informationBorn 1955 10 07 October 7 1955 age 67 Paris FranceGenresClassicalOccupation s Musician 1 Instrument s CelloYears active1961 presentLabelsCBS RCA Sony ClassicalWebsiteyo yoma wbr comYo Yo MaTraditional Chinese馬友友Simplified Chinese马友友TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinMǎ YǒuyǒuBopomofoㄇㄚˇㄧㄡˇㄧㄡˇWade GilesMa YuyuYale RomanizationMǎ YǒuyǒuIPA ma jo ʊjo ʊ Yue CantoneseYale Romanizationmaah yauh yauhJyutpingmaa5 jau5 jau5IPA ma ja ːu ja ːu 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 collaborated with artists in diverse genres including the singer Bobby McFerrin the guitarist Carlos Santana Sergio Assad and his brother Odair and the singer songwriter guitarist James Taylor Ma s primary performance instrument is a 1733 Montagnana cello Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006 4 He was awarded The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999 the National Medal of Arts in 2001 5 the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 and the Polar Music Prize in 2012 6 Ma was named one of Time s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 7 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Silk Road Ensemble 3 Playing style 4 Instruments 5 Live performances 6 Media appearances 7 Personal life 8 Discography 9 Awards and recognition 9 1 Honorary doctorates 10 References 11 External linksEarly life and education EditMa s mother Marina Lu was a singer and his father Hiao Tsiun Ma was a violinist composer 8 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 Ma played the violin and piano before obtaining a medical degree and becoming a pediatrician 9 The family moved to New York City when Ma was seven 10 11 From the age of three Ma played the violin piano and later viola but settled on cello in 1960 at age four When three year old Yo Yo said he wanted a big instrument his father went to see Etienne Vatelot a foremost violin maker in Paris who after a chat lent him a 1 16th cello He jokes that his first choice was the double bass due to its large size but he compromised and took up cello instead When Dr Ma realised that Yo Yo was ready for a better teacher a well known cello instructor Mme Michelle Lepinte was selected He began performing before audiences at age five and played for presidents Dwight D Eisenhower and John F Kennedy when he was seven 12 13 At age eight he appeared on American television with his sister 14 in an event introduced by Leonard Bernstein In 1964 Isaac Stern introduced them on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and they performed the Sonata of Sammartini He attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Children s School where he graduated at age 15 15 He appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky s Rococo Variations Ma studied at The Juilliard School at age 19 with Leonard Rose and attended Columbia University but dropped out He later enrolled at Harvard College Prior to entering Harvard Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals He spent four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival after meeting and falling in love with Mount Holyoke College sophomore and festival administrator Jill Hornor during his first summer there in 1972 16 Even before that time Ma gained fame and performed with many of the world s major orchestras He has also played chamber music often with pianist Emanuel Ax with whom he has a close friendship from their days at Juilliard Ma received his bachelor s degree from Harvard in 1976 17 and in 1991 received an honorary doctorate from Harvard 18 Career Edit Ma performs at the White House for American president Ronald Reagan Crown Princess Michiko and Crown Prince Akihito of Japan and Nancy Reagan October 1987 In 1997 Ma was featured on John Williams soundtrack to the Hollywood film Seven Years in Tibet In 2000 he was heard on the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and of Master and Commander The Far Side of the World in 2003 He collaborated with Williams again on the score for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha He has also worked with Italian composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded Morricone s compositions of the Dollars Trilogy including The Good the Bad and the Ugly as well as Once Upon a Time in America The Mission and The Untouchables He has recorded over 90 albums 19 of which are Grammy Award winners He received the Award of Excellence from New York s International Center In addition to his prolific musical career Ma collaborated in 1999 with landscape architects to design a Bach inspired garden Known as the Music Garden it interprets Bach s Suite No 1 in G Major for unaccompanied cello BWV 1007 where the garden s sections were designed to correspond with the suite s dance movements 19 Toronto enthusiastically embraced the design originally planned for Boston and it was subsequently built in the Harbourfront Toronto neighborhood 20 Ma was named Peace Ambassador by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in January 2006 21 He is a founding member of the influential Chinese American Committee of 100 which addresses the concerns of Americans of Chinese heritage 22 On November 3 2009 President Barack Obama appointed Ma to serve on the President s Committee on the Arts and Humanities 23 His music was featured in the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball An American Love Story narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman 24 25 26 In 2010 President Obama announced that he would recognize Ma with the Presidential Medal of Freedom which Ma received in February 2011 27 In 2010 Ma was named Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra He launched the Citizen Musician initiative partnership in partnership with the orchestra s music director Riccardo Muti 28 Also in 2010 he appeared on a solo album by guitarist Carlos Santana Guitar Heaven The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time playing alongside Santana and singer India Arie on a Beatles classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps In 2015 Ma performed with singer songwriter and guitarist James Taylor on three tracks of Taylor s chart topping album Before This World You And I Again In 2019 Ma directed the orchestra at the annual Youth Music Culture Guangdong Ma is represented by the independent artist management firm Opus 3 Artists 29 Ma contributed to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist released in September 2021 by backing Miley Cyrus on a cover of the Metallica song Nothing Else Matters 30 Silk Road Ensemble Edit Main article Silkroad arts organization Ma formed his own collective the Silk Road Ensemble named after the route across Asia which for more than 2 000 years was used for trade between Europe and China His goal was to bring together musicians from diverse countries that were historically linked via the Silk Road 31 The ensemble s recordings are issued on the Sony Classical label He also founded the Silk Road Connect an educational pilot program for children from middle schools in the United States including New York City 32 Playing style EditMa has been referred to by critics as omnivorous and possesses an eclectic repertoire 33 In addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire he has recorded Baroque pieces using period instruments American bluegrass music traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the tangos of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla Brazilian music recording traditional and contemporary songs composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Pixinguinha a collaboration with Bobby McFerrin where Ma admitted to being terrified by McFerrin s improvisation and the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 Naqoyqatsi Ma is known for his smooth rich tone soulful lyricism and virtuosity 34 He released a cello recording of Niccolo Paganini s Caprice No 24 for solo violin and Zoltan Kodaly s Solo Sonata Instruments EditMa s primary performance instrument is Petunia a 1733 Domenico Montagnana cello valued in 2005 at US 2 5 million US 3 5 million in 2021 prices A student approached Ma after one of his classes in Salt Lake City and asked if the cello had a nickname Ma replied No but if I play for you will you name it The student chose Petunia and it stuck 35 In 1999 Ma inadvertently left the cello in a taxicab in New York City but it was quickly returned undamaged 36 That year when its neck was damaged during X ray baggage inspection he borrowed the Pawle Stradivarius cello from the Chimei Museum for a concert in Taiwan The damage was repaired in time but Ma played both Petunia and Pawle in the concert nonetheless 37 38 39 Another of Ma s cellos the Davidov Stradivarius was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pre who bequeathed it to him Du Pre voiced her frustration with the cello s unpredictability but Ma attributed du Pre s sentiment to her impassioned style of playing adding that the Stradivarius cello must be coaxed by the player 40 It was until recently set up in a Baroque manner since Ma exclusively played Baroque music on it Ma also owns a modern cello made by Peter and Wendela Moes of Peissenberg Germany and one of carbon fiber by the Luis and Clark company of Boston 41 Ma also plays on a Zygmuntowicz cello which he takes on long tours and uses in major concert venues According to Zygmuntowicz he wants to give Ma a reason to leave his Montagnana at home 42 Live performances Edit Ma with Condoleezza Rice after performing a duet at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal AwardsOn July 5 1986 Ma performed in the New York Philharmonic s tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty which was televised live on ABC Television 43 The orchestra with conductor Zubin Mehta performed in Central Park Ma performed a duet with Condoleezza Rice at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards He was the first performer on September 11 2002 at the site of the World Trade Center while the first of the names of the dead were read on the first anniversary of the attack on the WTC he played the Sarabande from Bach s Cello Suite 5 in C Minor 44 He performed a special arrangement of Sting s Fragile with Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Utah He also appeared as a Pennington Great Performers series artist with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra in 2005 He performed John Williams Air and Simple Gifts at the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama on January 20 2009 along with Itzhak Perlman violin Gabriela Montero piano and Anthony McGill clarinet While the quartet played live the music played simultaneously over speakers and on television was a recording made two days prior due to concerns over the cold weather damaging the instruments Ma said A broken string was not an option It was wicked cold 45 On May 3 2009 Ma performed the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe s Self Comes to Mind for solo cello and two percussionists with John Ferrari and Ayano Kataoka at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City The work is based on a poetic description written for the composer of the evolution of brain into mind by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio A film of brain scans provided by Hanna Damasio and other images were coordinated with the performance Ma appearing at the World Economic Forum s annual meeting in 2008 On August 29 2009 Ma performed at the funeral mass for Senator Edward M Kennedy Pieces he performed included the Sarabande movement from Bach s Cello Suite No 6 and Franck s Panis angelicus with Placido Domingo 46 On October 3 2009 Ma appeared with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper at the National Arts Centre gala in Ottawa Harper a fan of The Beatles played the piano and sang a rendition of With a Little Help from My Friends while Ma accompanied him on cello On October 16 2011 Ma performed at the memorial of Steve Jobs at Stanford University s Memorial Church 47 In 2011 Ma performed with American dancer Charles Lil Buck Riley in the United States and in China at the U S China Forum on the Arts and Culture 48 On April 18 2013 he performed at an interfaith service to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross where he played the Sarabande from Bach s Cello Suite No 5 in C Minor He and other musicians also accompanied members of the Boston Children s Chorus in a hymn 49 Ma s performance at Paranal Observatory home of the Very Large Telescope 50 On September 9 2015 Ma performed all six of Bach s cello suites at the Royal Albert Hall London as part of the BBC Proms Season On September 12 2017 Ma performed all six of 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 The audience of around 17 000 also heard him play an encore a tribute to cellist Pablo Casals who as a 13 year old in 1890 discovered an old copy of the Bach suites in a secondhand music store bringing them to modern attention Ma s memorable last words were If there are any 13 year here don t throw anything away 51 On November 11 2018 Ma performed at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris with violinist Renaud Capucon in front of a crowd of world leaders during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I 52 On May 1 2019 he performed at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert He said that his interest in astronomy motivated him to visit and perform there On June 20 2019 Ma performed the Bach Complete Cello Suites in plein air at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago Illinois The free performance attracted what might have been his largest audience with a pavilion capacity of 11 000 and many thousands more listening from surrounding Millennium Park On January 20 2021 Ma s performance of Amazing Grace pre recorded due to the COVID 19 pandemic was played during the inauguration of Joe Biden 53 54 In March 2021 Ma played Ave Maria in an impromptu waiting room concert after receiving his second dose of a COVID 19 vaccine at Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts 55 56 On September 14 2021 Ma again performed Bach s six cello suites at the Hollywood Bowl this time without intermission pausing only briefly for applause between suites and to announce his dedications for two of them Media appearances EditMa appeared as himself in an episode My Music Rules of the animated children s television series Arthur and on The West Wing the episode Noel where he played the prelude to Bach s Cello Suite No 1 at a Congressional Christmas party He made five appearances on Sesame Street all of which first aired during the show s 17th season in 1986 He appeared in The Simpsons episode Puffless where he played a serenade and theme music Ma s likeness appeared in another Simpsons episode Missionary Impossible but he was played by regular Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria rather than Ma himself Ma appeared twice on Mister Rogers Neighborhood developed a friendship with creator and host Fred Rogers and later received the inaugural Fred Rogers Legacy Award He also starred in the visual accompaniment to his recordings of Bach s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello Ma was often invited to press events by Apple Inc and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs performed during the company s major events and appeared in a commercial for the Macintosh computer Ma s Bach recordings were used in a memorial video released by Apple on the first anniversary of Jobs s death 57 Ma was a guest on the Not My Job segment of Wait Wait Don t Tell Me on April 7 2007 where he won for listener Thad Moore 58 On October 27 2008 Ma appeared as a guest and performer on The Colbert Report 59 He was also one of the show s guests on November 1 2011 where he performed songs from the album The Goat Rodeo Sessions with musicians Stuart Duncan Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile 60 He also performed several of Bach s cello suites for the 2012 film Bill W On October 5 2015 he appeared on Colbert s new program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in support of ballerina Misty Copeland and prematurely celebrating his 60th birthday In August 2018 Ma appeared on NPR s Tiny Desk Concerts 61 On June 19 2020 the same group of musicians who recorded The Goat Rodeo Sessions released a second album Not Our First Goat Rodeo On September 1 2020 the same group performed a virtual concert of some songs from Not Our First Goat Rodeo on NPR s Tiny Desk Concerts 62 On June 13 2021 Ma was the guest on BBC Radio 4 s Desert Island Discs 63 His musical choices included Tin Tin Deo by the Oscar Peterson Trio and Podmoskovnye Vechera Moscow Nights by Vasily Solovyov Sedoi He selected as his book the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and as his luxury item a Swiss Army knife He revealed that his career in music felt like a gift after scoliosis threatened his ability to play in his 20s 64 65 Ma makes a cameo appearance as himself in the 2022 Netflix film Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery 66 Personal life EditSince 1978 Ma has been married to Jill Hornor an arts consultant 67 They have two children Nicholas and Emily 11 68 Although he personally considers it the worst epithet he s ever faced he was tagged in 2001 as Sexiest Classical Musician by People 69 He has continued to receive such accolades over the years including from AARP in 2012 70 He has also been praised as a person of unquestionable character and singled out for his humble spirit self effacing manner and humanitarianism 71 According to research presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr for the PBS series Faces of America a relative hid the Ma family genealogy in his home in China to save it from destruction during the Cultural Revolution Ma s paternal ancestry can be traced back 18 generations to the year 1217 The genealogy was compiled in the 18th century by an ancestor tracing everyone with the surname Ma through the paternal line back to one common ancestor in the 3rd century BC Ma s generation name Yo was decided by his fourth great grand uncle Ma Ji Cang in 1755 72 73 DNA research revealed that Ma is distantly related to actress Eva Longoria 74 Aside from English Ma is fluent in Chinese and French 75 76 Discography EditFurther information Yo Yo Ma discography Ma s albums include recordings of cello concertos including among others Shostakovich Brahms Elgar and Haydn sonatas for cello and piano Bach s cello suites and a variety of chamber music He has also recorded in non classical styles notably in collaboration with Bobby McFerrin Chris Botti Carlos Santana James Taylor and Chris Thile 77 78 Awards and recognition EditGrammy AwardGrammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance 1986 Brahms Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor Op 38 and F Op 99 RCA 17022 1987 Beethoven Cello and Piano Sonata No 4 in C amp Variations CBS 42121 1992 Brahms Piano Quartets Op 25 Op 26 Sony 45846 1993 Brahms Sonatas for Cello amp Piano Sony 48191 1996 Brahms Beethoven Mozart Clarinet Trios Sony 57499 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist s Performance 1990 Barber Cello Concerto Op 22 Britten Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Op 68 CBS 44900 1993 Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme Sony 48382 1995 The New York Album Works of Albert Bartok amp Bloch Sony 57961 1998 Yo Yo Ma Premieres Danielpour Kirchner Rouse Sony Classical 66299 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance 1985 Bach The Unaccompanied Cello Suites CBS 37867 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition 1995 The New York Album Stephen Albert Cello Concerto Sony 57961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Album 1998 Yo Yo Ma Premieres Danielpour Kirchner Rouse Sony Classical 66299 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album 1999 Soul of the Tango The Music of Astor Piazzolla Sony Classical 63122 2001 Appalachian Journey Sony 66782 2004 Obrigado Brazil Sony 89935 2009 Songs of Joy amp Peace Sony Classical B001BN1V8U Grammy Award for Best Folk Album 2012 The Goat Rodeo Sessions w Stuart Duncan Edgar Meyer amp Chris ThileGrammy Award for Best World Music Album 2017 Sing Me Home Yo Yo Ma amp The Silk Road EnsembleGrammy Award for Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance 2022 Beethoven Cello Sonatas Hope and Tears Yo Yo Ma amp Emanuel AxHonorary doctorates Edit 1991 Honorary Doctor of Music Harvard University 79 2005 Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts Princeton University 2019 Honorary Doctor of Music University of Oxford 80 2019 Honorary Doctor of Arts Dartmouth College 81 2022 Honorary Doctor of Music Stony Brook University 82 2022 Honorary Doctor of Music Columbia University 83 Others1978 Avery Fisher Prize 1993 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 84 1999 The Glenn Gould Prize 1999 Member of the American Philosophical Society 85 2001 National Medal of Arts 5 2004 Harvard Arts Medal 86 2004 Latin Grammy for Best Instrumental Album at the 2004 Latin Grammy Awards for Obrigado Brazil Sony 89935 2006 Dan David Prize 2006 Leonie Sonning Music Prize 2007 Award of Distinction at the International Cello Festival 2011 Kennedy Center Honor 87 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded on February 15 2011 88 nominated November 17 2010 6 2012 Polar Music Prize 2012 Best Cross Cultural Collaboration Award by Songlines magazine s 2012 annual Songlines Music Awards for his work The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Stuart Duncan Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile 2013 Vilcek Prize in Contemporary Music 89 2014 Midwest Young Artists Golden Baton Award 2014 Fred Rogers Legacy Award inaugural recipient given by the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children s Media at Saint Vincent College Upon reception of the award Ma stated This is perhaps the greatest honor I ve ever received 2016 Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters 90 2020 The Asia Society s Asia Game Changer Award 91 2021 Praemium Imperiale 92 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize 93 References Edit a b Kosman Joshua November 2005 35 Who Made a Difference Yo Yo 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