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7 unusual facts about Yo-Yo Ma


Beast Cops

There, Cheung meets a madam named Yoyo (whose name in dubbed version is sometimes given as Yo-Yo Ma), who is also Fai's moll.

Festival of Arts and Ideas

The Festival's free headliner concerts on the New Haven Green attract thousands of spectators and past performers include Aaron Neville, Yo-Yo Ma, Red Barrett, Rosanne Cash, Calexico and the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Heavenly Divine

The track's violin and background vocals are both sampled from "Andante" by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma.

Inspector Pink Dragon

The Chinese name of Tony Leung Ka Fai's character (馬友友) is also the Chinese name of famed celloist Yo-Yo Ma.

Karl Davydov

This cello, now known as the Davidov Stradivarius, was owned by Jacqueline du Pré until her death and is currently on loan to cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Li Delun

In the ensuing years, Li served as a bridge between musicians from China and abroad, performing with artists such as David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Fou Tsong, Liu Shikun, Yin Chengzong and many others.

To the Best of Our Knowledge

"East Meets West," a series on East/West cultural crossroads, included interviews with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Muslim philosopher Tariq Ramadan, Muslim rapper Lupe Fiasco, Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, and Pakistani rock icon Salman Ahmad.


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Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

The Silk Road Project and its performance unit, the Silk Road Ensemble, was established by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998 to explore the rich cultural traditions of the Silk Road - the historic trade route that connected the peoples and traditions of Asia with those of Europe.

Amanda Forsyth

She has also collaborated with artists who include Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Garrick Ohlsson, Jon Kimura Parker, Yefim Bronfman, Joseph Kalichstein, Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Louis Lortie.

Andreas Ottensamer

The first prize winner of several competitions with the instruments of clarinet, piano and cello, Ottensamer has performed as soloist and chamber musician worldwide with partners such as the Vienna Virtuosi (members of the Vienna Philharmonic), the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and performers including Leif Ove Andsnes, Angelika Kirchschlager, Julian Rachlin and Yo-Yo Ma.

Cristina Pato

Pato has collaborated with artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Arturo O'Farrill, The Chieftains, Paquito D'Rivera, The World Orchestra, Damian Woetzel, Lil Buck, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Osvaldo Golijov and in more than twenty recordings as a guest artist.

Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Since opening its doors in January 1992 with three sold-out performances of Cats, the Phillips Center has hosted performers as diverse as Tony Bennett, Itzhak Perlman, Riverdance, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ray Charles, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alison Krauss, Stomp, Yo-Yo Ma, David Sedaris, Bolshoi Ballet, Wynton Marsalis, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Capitol Steps.

Domenico Montagnana

Artists who play or have played on Montagnanas include Stephen Kates, Lionel Tertis, Lynn Harrell, Mischa Maisky, Truls Mørk, Alfred Wallenstein, Josef Roismann, Steven Isserlis, Yo-Yo Ma, Maurice Eisenberg, Emanuel Feuermann, Daniel Saidenberg, Orlando Cole, Sevak Avanesyan, Nathaniel Rosen, Boris Andrianov, Galen Kelch and Ralph Kirshbaum.

Elgin Symphony Orchestra

Over the years the Elgin Symphony Orchestra has engaged accomplished musicians including Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway, Itzhak Pearlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Midori Goto, Kathleen Battle, and Alisa Weilerstein.

Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio

Yo-Yo Ma performed Solo Cello on "Part I"; other performers include: The Pacific Chorale & Children's Chorus the Ngah-Khoi Vietnamese Children's Choir, Ann Panagulias and James Maddalena; it was conducted by Carl St. Clair.

Greenville Symphony Orchestra

Tchivzhel has performed with many great artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Vladimir Spivakov, Gidon Kremer, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, André Watts, János Starker, Gil Shaham, Olga Kern, Nicolai Demidenko, Joshua Bell, Bella Davidovich, Yuri Bashmet, Evelyn Glennie, Pete Fountain, Sharon Isbin, and Doc Severinsen.

Juilliard String Quartet

It has performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Yo-Yo Ma, and Maurizio Pollini and also (in its earlier days) with the famous scientist Albert Einstein.

Kent Tritle

Tritle’s artistic collaborations include those with Susanne Mentzer, Susan Graham, Renée Fleming (for BBC Wales), Jessye Norman, Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Tony Randall and Hei-Kyung Hong, Barbara Dever, André Previn and Yo-Yo Ma.

Mark Morris

Morris and his Dance Group collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Falling Down Stairs, a film by Barbara Willis Sweete available on Ma's Inspired by Bach series, volume 2.

New York Chamber Symphony

Guest artists who have performed with the New York Chamber Symphony early in their careers include Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Dawn Upshaw, Emanuel Ax, Gil Shaham, Yefim Bronfman, Joshua Bell, Hélène Grimaud, Horacio Gutiérrez, and Hilary Hahn.

Sony Masterworks

The label owns rights to famous recordings dating from the 20th century and late 19th century, by artists such as Enrico Caruso, Arturo Toscanini, Mario Lanza, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Eugene Ormandy and Van Cliburn as well as from more recent performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, and Joshua Bell.

Vivaldi's Cello

Vivaldi’s Cello is a 2004 album of various arrangements taken from Antonio Vivaldi's operas and oratorios performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, conductor.


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