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Yo-Yo Ma is a male cellist, composer, and music educator born in Paris, France, in 1955. He holds citizenship in the United States, the Republic of China, and France. His professional career began in 1961, and he performs on the cello, violin, piano, and viola. He is associated with the genres of classical, contemporary classical, and baroque music.
Ma has received the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Emmy Award, and the Glenn Gould Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was educated at Harvard University, Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Harvard College. He speaks English, French, and Standard Chinese. His recordings have been released by Sony Classical, Columbia Records, and RCA Records.
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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…
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- Half Moon — Self2025
- Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy — Self - Narrator (voice)2025
- Music by John Williams — Self - Cellist2024
- Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée — Self2024
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Yo-Yo Ma2022
- Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 72020
- Deeper Look from New York — Self2020
- Desus & Mero — Self2019
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? — Self - Musician and Fred's Friend2018
- Mister Rogers: It's You I Like — Self2018
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- Male
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- France
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- 1955
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Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to and partially raised by Chinese parents in Paris 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, attended Columbia University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 92 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards. In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire
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- France
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- music educator
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- Standard Chinese
- Award
- Birgit Nilsson Prize
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- viola
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- RCA Records
- Official website
- www.yo-yoma.com
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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. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven 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 20 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.
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