Yo Yo Ma

Yo Yo Ma

Ma Youyou was born in Paris, France on October 7, 1955, and his ancestral home is Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City). Cellist, graduated from Harvard University and Juilliard School of music.

In 1959, his father began to learn Cello and moved to New York with his family. In 1962, he participated in a tour concert for the preparation of the Washington cultural center, and President Kennedy and his wife attended the party. In 1971, the 16-year-old Mayou concert was held in New York. In 1976, he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in anthropology. In 1985, he won the Grammy Award for best instrument solo for the first time (without Symphony Orchestra). In 1991, Harvard University awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1998, Yo Yo Ma's Bach inspiration came out. In 1999, in cooperation with barenboin, he performed with the "Middle East Youth Orchestra" composed of Middle East musicians in Weimar, Germany, and won the Gould prize in the same year.

In 2006, Annan, who was then Secretary General of the United Nations, appointed Ma Youyou as UN peace envoy and won the Don David award in the same year. 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 of American civilians. On February 13, 2017, he won the "best world music album" award of the 59th Grammy Award for the 18th time in Los Angeles, USA.

Early experience

Ma Youyou was born in Paris, France on October 7, 1955. His first musical instrument was violin, and later viola. In 1959, at the age of 4, he began to learn piano and cello. At the age of 5, he began to perform in front of the audience. In 1962, at the age of 7, he moved to New York with his family. In the same year, I met cellist Pablo Casals, and with the help of Leonard Bernstein, I attended a tour concert with my sister Ma Youcheng at Carnegie Hall in the United States to prepare for the construction of Washington cultural center. President Kennedy and his wife attended the party, and they were highly praised by the New York times. The concert was conducted by Leonard Bernstein and broadcast on American television. In 1969, at the age of 14, he graduated from high school. As a soloist, he played Tchaikovsky's variations on the Rococo Theme with the Harvard reticliffe orchestra. After that, Yo Yo Ma entered Julia college and studied under cellist Leonardo Ross. In May 1971, at the cello recital held at Carnegie Hall in New York, 16-year-old Yo Yo Ma was famous for his amazing performance. after seven years of studying at Juilliard college, he dropped out and went to Harvard University even before he graduated. He became famous at this time, playing with many symphony orchestras. During this period, Yo Yo Ma recorded and played Bach's cello suite. At the same time, he often performed some chamber music with his good friend Emmanuel AIX, who was a pianist in the Conservatory of music. He also performed duets with former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In 1976, Yo Yo Ma graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. In 1991, Harvard University awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1993, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Acting experience

In 1997, Yo Yo Ma spent many years on an innovative interpretation of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite combined with a variety of performing arts. The content not only includes his concerts all over the world, the re recording of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite, but also the connotation of "Bach's inspiration". The performance is divided into six films (one for each of the Six Suites) and Bach, who created a new style by artists in different fields. The film was broadcast on public television and major television networks around the world, and won many awards, including two Emmy Awards, 16 nominations for Canadian Gemini awards and many international film festival awards. The video was released by Sony classic. In 1998, Sony classic released three albums of "Silk Road", and other multimedia presentation methods such as "Silk Road website" will also be launched. In the same year, his album "Yo Ma's Bach inspiration" came out. In the summer of 1999, Yo Yo Ma cooperated with famous conductor barenboin to perform and study together with the "Middle East Youth Orchestra" composed of a group of young musicians from the Middle East. The activity was called "1999 city of culture" and was held in Weima, Germany. In the same year, his 10-year-old "soul of Brazil" album finally came out and won the Grammy Award. in the spring of 2000, he released the sequel "journey of Appalachian", which is the sequel of "the dance of Appalachian". Although Ma Youyou covers a variety of music fields, he still maintains his status as the best-selling musician of classical music. As soon as his new album is released, he immediately enters the "billboard" classic music best-selling disc, and can stay in the top 15 for a long time, and even has four albums on the list at the same time. At the same time, he also developed "family concerts", such as performing at the opening of a series of "family concerts" at Carnegie Hall; and“ Mr.Roger TV programs such as "neighborhood" and "Sesame Street" lead small audiences into the music world. Yo Yo Ma tries his best to create a music space for children and make music and creativity a part of children's life 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 Oscar for best music. on the morning of the 11th us time, the commemoration of the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks was solemnly held at the World Trade Center site in New York. Yo Yo Ma was invited to perform at the commemoration. In the spring of 2004, Yo Yo Ma won 43 Grammy Awards again. Under the pressure of the public and the media, the Vienna national theatre once again extended an invitation to Yo Yo Ma. In 2005, Hollywood sounder John Williams announced that he would work with Yo Yo Ma to complete the soundtrack of Memoirs of geisha. In the 2006 Oscars, the film will not only compete with all kinds of films in performance awards, but also "go one step ahead" of other films in music. In 2006, Yo Yo Ma returned to his hometown Ningbo to hold the cello solo concert of Bach's journey. Although it was the first time that he set foot on the land of his hometown Ningbo, he kept waving to everyone with flowers in his hands. He did not feel strange to his hometown. In 2007, Ma Youyou and his "Silk Road" ensemble participated in the opening ceremony of the world Special Olympics. Tan Dun composed music for the flag entrance ceremony and acted as the live symphony conductor. On January 20, 2009, Yo Yo Ma performed at the inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama. He led the performance of Quartet, which was jointly performed by Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Gabriella montay and Anthony McGill. After that, Obama took the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address by pressing Lincoln's Bible. On February 15, 2011, US President Barack Obama presented the 2010 Presidential Medal of freedom to 15 people, including Yo Yo Ma. In the same year, Yo Yo Ma won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Kennedy Center of the United States. His new cross-border album "circle sheep Quartet" was also released around the world. His partners are double bass player Edgar Mayer, mandolinian Chris Schill and violinist Stuart Duncan. In 2012, Yoyo Ma performed for the first time in Chongqing, and performed pianist Yoyo Ma and Catherine Stout concert together. Before the Chongqing performance, Yoyo Ma only held concerts in five cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an and Hangzhou in Chinese mainland. Chongqing was the first concert of Yoyo Ma in southwest city. This is the first concert, but the preparation time is as long as four years. on August 6, 2013, Langlang and Yo Yo Ma appeared at the tangwood Music Festival in the United States, and the two musicians successively presented a "back-to-back" Concert by Chinese artists. Yo Yo Ma dedicated his classic Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor. In 2014, Yo Yo Ma led the Silk Road Ensemble to the concert hall of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. That night, the "international band" opened the mystery of the performance with the Silk Road Suite. In addition, Wu man's "deep night", percussion work "weaving", kaihan calho's "ten thousand horses galloping", Christopher Adler's "the music of the palace" and sandip Das's "sresti" are also staged. In 2016, Yo Yo Ma is still working on his silk road plan. In the concert hall of Hong Kong Art Center, Zhao Lin's Cello and Sheng Concerto Du was performed to open the 2016-2017 music season of Hong Kong Orchestra. Ma Youyou, Wu Tong and Yu Long, together with Du, started from Xi'an, the starting point of the Silk Road, and successively held three Western concerts in Xi'an, Lanzhou and Urumqi in cooperation with Xi'an Symphony Orchestra, Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra and Xinjiang Philharmonic Orchestra. On November 16, Yo Yo Ma's Beijing tour was held in the concert hall of the National Grand Theater. In the past, most of the tours of the Silk Road orchestra were performed by musicians from China. Wu Tong mostly went abroad to perform all over the world. This time, she returned to China. on January 15, 2017, Guangdong International Youth Music Week (YMC)

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