Outstanding cellist Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma, born on October 7, 1955 in Paris, France, with his ancestral home in Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province, graduated from Harvard University and the Juilliard School. In 1959, his father began to learn cello and moved to New York with his family. In 1962, he participated in a concert tour to prepare for the establishment of the Washington Cultural Center, and the PRESIDENT Kennedy and his wife attended the evening. In 1971, at the age of 16, Yo-Yo Ma gave a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 1976 with a degree in anthropology. In 1985, he won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo (no symphony orchestra) for the first time. In 1991, Harvard University awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1998, "Yo-Yo Ma's Bach Inspiration" came out. In 1999, he performed with Barenboine with the Middle East Youth Orchestra composed of Middle Eastern musicians in Weimar, Germany, and won the Gould Prize in the same year. In 2006, Then UnProspecting Secretary-General Annan appointed Yo-Yo Ma as a UNITED Nations Messenger of Peace, and in the same year won the Don David Award. In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama held a ceremony at the White House to award Yo-Yo Ma and others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which represents the highest honor for American civilians. On February 13, 2017, he won the "Best World Music Album" award at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, USA for the 18th time.

In 1998, Xinli Classical released three "Silk Road" albums, and other multimedia presentation methods such as "Silk Road Website" will also be launched. In the same year, his album "Pat inspiration from Yo-Yo Ma" was released. In the summer of 1999, Yo-Yo Ma collaborated with the famous conductor Barenboin to perform with a group of young musicians from the Middle East, the "Middle East Youth Orchestra", an event called "1999 City of Culture", held in Weimar, Germany. In the same year, his 10-year-old soul of Brazil album finally came out and won a Grammy Award. In the spring of 2000, the sequel to the "Appalachian Round Dance" was released, "The Journey to Appalachian". Despite spanning a wide range of musical fields, Yo-Yo Ma maintains his status as a best-selling musician in classical music, making the "Billboard" classical music best-selling disc as soon as the new album is released, and can maintain the top 15 for a long time, and even have four albums on the chart at the same time. He has also developed "family concerts", such as in the opening of a series of "family concerts" in Carnegie Hall, and in television programs such as "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" and "Sesame Street", leading small audiences into the world of music. Yo-Yo Ma does his best to shape a musical space for children, making music and creativity a part of children's lives in a rich and vivid way. In the same year, he played the theme song for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won the Academy Award for Best Music for the neoclassical violin piece. In the spring of 2004, Yo-Yo Ma won the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards again. Under the strong pressure of public and media, the Vienna State Theatre once again extended an invitation to Yo-Yo Ma. In 2005, Hollywood scorer John Williams, who had scored Films such as Star Wars, announced that he would collaborate with Yo-Yo Ma on the soundtrack for Memoirs of a Geisha. As a result, the film will not only compete with various films in the performance awards at the 2006 Oscars, but also "one step ahead" over other films in music. In 2006, Yo-Yo Ma returned to his hometown of Ningbo to hold the cello solo concert of "Bach Journey", although it was the first time he set foot on the land of his hometown of Ningbo, he held flowers in his hand and kept waving to everyone, without any sense of strangeness to his hometown by wandering overseas wanderers. In 2007, Yo-Yo Ma and his "Silk Road" ensemble participated in the opening ceremony of special Olympics World Games. Tan Dun composed music for the flag entrance ceremony and served as the conductor of the live symphony. In 2016, Yo-Yo Ma was still working on his Silk Road project. At the Hong Kong Arts Centre Concert Hall, he opened the Hong Kong Orchestra's 2016-2017 music season with Zhao Lin's cello and sheng concerto "Degrees". Ma Youyou, Wu Tong and Yu Long, starting from Xi'an, the starting point of the Silk Road, together with "Degree", have successively held three western concerts in Xi'an, Lanzhou and Urumqi with the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra, Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra and Xinjiang Philharmonic Orchestra respectively. On November 16th, Yo-Yo Ma's Beijing Tour was held at the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. In the past, the Silk Road Orchestra's tours have been mostly performed abroad by Wu Tong, a musician from China, who has performed abroad around the world, but this time he has returned to China.

appraise

He played like God had come, because Jobs didn't believe a mortal could do that. He is one of the world's greatest classical musicians and one of the most creative and diverse musicians in the world. His piano always makes people cry, his eyes are moist, his heart is full of love and boundless thoughts, and the music of friends and friends connects the world. (Comments by Jobs, Obama, Andron Tan)

He is the Most Frequently Associated Chinese Musician and has won 17 Grammy awards. What is particularly rare is that he is good at classical performance, he is more "compatible" than other classical musicians, such as his whim cross-border cooperation with friends "Yo-Yo Ma and Friends: Singing for Happiness and Peace", and he can easily win the Grammy "Best Folk Album Award". (Nanjing Daily Review)

Through his interactions with musicians, he transcends the boundaries of a single musical style. His biggest goal is to turn music into a language of communication, across different races of the world, and to bring people closer together. To this end, he devoted himself to the study of Chinese music, traditional Chinese instruments, and jungle music in Carajali in Africa. From his extensive and diverse musical career, it is not difficult to understand his constant search for and listening to different ways of dialogue and his attitude towards personal artistic growth. Whether playing new pieces or familiar repertoire, Yo-Yo Ma strives to find elements that stimulate his imagination. To develop his cello repertoire, Yo-Yo Ma often played lesser-known cellos of the 20th century, and many modern composers have tailored new pieces for him. He has premiered new works by several composers, not only for him, but also for the composer's creative process. (Sina Entertainment Review)