Yo-Yo Ma
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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Películas (40)
A Song for the Snow Lion
2026 · Self, Producer
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Half Moon
2025 · Self
Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée
2024 · Self
Facing the Wind
2024 · Executive Producer
Music by John Williams
2024 · Self - Cellist
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Yo-Yo Ma
Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7
2020
Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
2018 · Self - Cellist
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018 · Self - Musician and Fred's Friend
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018 · Self
The Words That Built America
2017 · Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Blue Gold: American Jeans
2017 · Self
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
2016 · Self
Yo Yo Ma: The Bach Project– Six Cello Suites
2015 · Self
Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
2013 · Himself
The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live
2012 · Self
How to Grow a Band
2012 · Self
Chris Botti in Boston
2009 · Self
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · Musician
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
2004 · Self
Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano
2003 · Self (cellist)
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · Musician
Appalachian Journey Live In Concert
2000 · Self
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 · Musician
Children of the Night
1999 · Songs
Appointment With The Wise Old Dog
1998 · Self
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
1997 · Self
Struggle for Hope
1997 · Self
Six Gestures
1997 · Self
Falling Down Stairs
1997 · Self
Sarabande
1997 · Self, Idea
Bach Cello Suite #1: The Music Garden
1997 · Self, Music
Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of the Carceri
1997 · Self, Music
Seven Years in Tibet
1997 · Musician
Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy
1995 · Self
Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration
1993 · Self
Tchaikovsky: 150th Birthday Gala from Leningrad
1990 · Self - Performer
Taipei Story
1985 · Musician
Ozawa
1985 · Self
Series (16)
Dancing Nation
2021 · Music
Deeper Look from New York
2020 · Self
Desus & Mero
2019 · Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 · Self - Guest
The Vietnam War
2017 · Additional Music
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Musical Guest
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · Self (voice)
The Colbert Report
2005 · Self - Guest
The West Wing
1999 · Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach
1998 · Self
Arthur
1996 · Yo-Yo Ma (voice)
Frasier
1993 · Tom (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self
Los Simpson
1989 · Yo-Yo Ma (voice)
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self - Main Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self