Sometimes in this HIp Hop Generation we all need to just Chill and let the music take us away. Yo Yo does that wonderfully.
WCN Transmedia Group Artist Showcase “Yo-Yo Ma”
Yo-Yo Ma
Ma plays the cello during the “Presentation of the Crystal Award” at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2008.
Yo-Yo Ma (simplified Chinese: 马友友; traditional Chinese: 馬友友; pinyin: Mǎ Yǒuyǒu; born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American[1] cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 [2] and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 [3]. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age.[4]
Ma studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and briefly attended Columbia University before ultimately enrolling at Harvard University. Prior to entering Harvard, Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of nonagenarian cellist and conductor Pablo Casals. Ma would ultimately spend four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival after meeting and falling in love with Mount Holyoke College sophomore and festival administrator Jill Hornor his first summer there in 1972.[7]
However, even before that time, Ma had steadily gained fame and had performed with most of the world’s major orchestras. His recordings and performances of Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Cello Suites recorded in 1983 and again in 1994–1997 are particularly acclaimed. He has also played a good deal of chamber music, often with the pianist Emanuel Ax, with whom he has a close friendship back from their days together at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Ma received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1976.[8] In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.[9]
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