"Zoltán Kodály's solo sonata. Ma's primary performance instrument is the cello nicknamed ""Petunia"", built by Domenico Montagnana in 1733, and valued at US$2.5 million. It was named Petunia by a student who approached him after one of his classes in Salt Lake City asking if he had a nickname for his cello. He said, ""No, but if I play for you, will you name it?"" She chose Petunia and it stuck. Yo-Yo Ma accidentally left this cello in a taxicab in New York City in 1999, but it was quickly returned undamaged. Another of Ma's cellos, the ""Davidov Stradivarius"", was"
"Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born Chinese-American cellist. He was born in Paris and spent his schooling years in New York City and was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and has enjoyed a prolific career as both a soloist performing with orchestras around the world and a recording artist. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards. In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, he has recorded a wide variety of folk music"
"Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album of recordings from Morricone's various film scores by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone. The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone functioned as orchestrator, conductor and producer. It was released as a standard compact disc on September 28, 2004 (093456), and a DualDisc using Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound on February 8, 2005 (093472). Ma also toured a suite of Morricone's music. The album stayed 105 weeks on the Billboard Top Classical Albums. The Mission Giuseppe Tornatore Suite"
"Songs of Joy & Peace Songs of Joy and Peace is a Christmas music album by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, released on October 14, 2008. The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. It features collaborations with many other artists, including vocalists Diana Krall & Alison Krauss, bassist John Clayton, pianist Dave Brubeck, cellist Matt Brubeck, clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, trumpeter Chris Botti, pianist Billy Childs, bassist Robert Hurst, drummer Billy Kilson, and guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Edgar Meyer, bassist Nilson Matta, mandolinist Chris Thile, vocalist Renée Fleming, Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster, harpist Marta Cook, saxophonist Joshua Redman,"
"Musician initiative. Yo-Yo Ma is represented by the independent artist management firm Opus 3 Artists. Also in 2010, he appeared on a solo album by guitarist Carlos Santana, ""Guitar Heaven : The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time"", playing alongside Santana and singer India Arie on a Beatles' classic, ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps"". In 2015, Ma performed alongside singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor for two separate tracks on Taylor's chart-topping record Before This World: ""You And I Again"", in addition to the title track. Ma formed his own Silk Road Ensemble, following the trade route which for more than"
"to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, , was a singer and his father, , was a violinist and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University (predecessor of the present-day Nanjing University). His sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, played the violin before obtaining a medical degree and becoming a pediatrician. The family moved to New York when Ma was seven years old. From the earliest possible age, Ma played the violin, piano and later viola, but ""settled"" on the cello in 1960 at age four. (Ma jokes that his first choice was the double bass due to its"
"Dances"") to the third movement's cello-conga duet between Ma and the Philharmonic's principal percussionist Christopher S. Lamb."" Cello Concerto (Salonen) The Cello Concerto is a composition for cello and orchestra by the Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen. The work was co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Barbican Centre, and the Elbphilharmonie. It was completed in 2017 and was first performed by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Salonen on March 9, 2017. The piece is dedicated to Yo-Yo Ma. The Cello Concerto is Salonen's third concerto, following his Piano"
"the upper bout, making it easier to play. It has Rubner nickel tyrolean style tuners. The bass has a robust sound and can go from zero degrees into a hot dry room or to a hot humid country and not lose its sound, not crack nor have its neck come loose. Yo-Yo Ma 2Cellos Michael Bacon (The Bacon Brothers) Steven Sharp Nelson (The Piano Guys) Alana Henderson (Hozier) Brent Kutzle (OneRepublic) Erik Friedlander Cremaine Booker (The Cello Guy) Michael Levin (Cirque du Soleil) Lindsey Stirling Taylor Davis Philip Heyman (Principal Violist of the Welsh National Opera) Marissa Licata (Rock violinist)"
"piper Cristina Pato, vocalist James Taylor, the Assad Family, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, and Wu Tong & the Silk Road Ensemble. All tracks traditional except where noted. Songs of Joy & Peace Songs of Joy and Peace is a Christmas music album by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, released on October 14, 2008. The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. It features collaborations with many other artists, including vocalists Diana Krall & Alison Krauss, bassist John Clayton, pianist Dave Brubeck, cellist Matt Brubeck, clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, trumpeter Chris Botti, pianist Billy Childs, bassist Robert Hurst, drummer Billy"
"Jonah Kim Jonah Kim (born June 8, 1988), is a South Korean cellist based in the United States. He has been referred to as ""the next Yo-Yo Ma"" and is known for his ""technical finesse"" and ""romantic and ardent"" playing style. Kim made his debut in 2002 with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, and has since performed internationally as both soloist and chamber musician. Born in 1988 to a Protestant pastor, he learned to play the cello by watching and imitating videotapes of Pablo Casals. The seven-year-old Kim was awarded full scholarship to the Juilliard School. He went on"
"to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His primary teachers include Janos Starker, Orlando Cole, Peter Wiley and Lynn Harrell. Kim has been involved with the Atlantic Music Festival since its founding in 2009 where he performs annually. He has been recorded and broadcast internationally on public radio and television. Jonah Kim Jonah Kim (born June 8, 1988), is a South Korean cellist based in the United States. He has been referred to as ""the next Yo-Yo Ma"" and is known for his ""technical finesse"" and ""romantic and ardent"" playing style. Kim made his debut in 2002 with Wolfgang"
"Yo-Yo Ma as creative consultant. Ma credits Rutter with making the orchestra and its music more accessible through performance and education beyond the major concert. During her tenure, the orchestra was hurt by a severe economic recession but her stewardship helped the organization to successfully weather it. In 2012, she settled a two-day musicians' strike. Her latter years at the orchestra included record fundraising and ticket sales. While in Chicago, she was named to the top 100 list of most powerful Chicagoans by ""Chicago"" magazine; she has held the chair the policy committee of the League of American Orchestras, and"
"Sergio Leone Suite Brian De Palma Suite ""Moses"" and ""Marco Polo"" Suite The Lady Caliph Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album of recordings from Morricone's various film scores by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone. The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone functioned as orchestrator, conductor and producer. It was released as a standard compact disc on September 28, 2004 (093456), and a DualDisc using Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound on February 8, 2005 (093472). Ma also toured a suite of Morricone's music. The"
"and Yo-Yo Ma. At the end of each festival season, the traditional closing work was Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, with Rudolf Serkin as soloist and the entire Marlboro community in the chorus. Ruth Laredo graduated in 1960 with a diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Her graduation took place on a celebration of the fiftieth birthday of the American composer Samuel Barber. By coincidence she had prepared his Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26 for her graduation recital, and so became part of the celebration. Barber was"
"have to coax the instrument. The more you attack it, the less it returns"". The Peresson was her primary instrument for the remainder of her career. Upon her death in 1987, the ""Davidov,"" owned by Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, was made available for use by Yo-Yo Ma. He has since performed and recorded with the instrument in Baroque music, specifically, the ""Simply Baroque"" and ""Simply Baroque II"" recordings. It was modified especially for the task of creating a more authentic sound for that era. The ""Davidov"" has subsequently been reconfigured for modern music. Davidov Stradivarius The Davidov Stradivarius (also: Davidoff"
"and is a Musicopia roster artist. He also holds a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and worked in the atelier of Aldo Rossi and for Hugh Hardy. Yang plays a viola made by the viola da gamba maker Johannes Tielka in 1670 and originally owned by the 19th-Century violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, best friend of Johannes Brahms. He records for the New Focus, Somm, and Avie labels. His father was noted landscape photographer John Yang and his mother, Linda Gureasko Yang, was garden columnist for the New York Times. His sister was electric bass player Naomi"
"one of the most widely known living cellists, Yo-Yo Ma, is actually owned by the Vuitton Foundation.) Some notable cellos: Cello The cello ( ; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( ; ) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C, G, D and A. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello"
"same year, he received an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory (NEC), which he had been attending concurrently. Some of the great violinists who have especially influenced him are Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Arthur Grumiaux, and Nathan Milstein. But his musical role model is cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In a 2007 interview with ""The Harvard Crimson"", Jackiw said of Ma, ""He throws himself into every activity that he’s involved in. I’ve seen him perform countless times and he is always so involved, and gets the audience involved."" After graduation, Jackiw moved to New York City, where he currently makes his"
"Ma Xiaohui Ma Xiaohui () is an erhu player and composer from Shanghai, People's Republic of China. She is one China's few first-class traditional artists embracing an international career. Critics have referred to her as ""an artist who speaks with the world through Erhu"" and ""a musician who plays with heart."" Ma is perhaps most readily recognized for her duet with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma on the Oscar -winning soundtrack for the film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"". The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts regarded her 1999 Millennium Stage performance among that year's ten finest concerts. Raised in an academic"
"Cello Concerto (Salonen) The Cello Concerto is a composition for cello and orchestra by the Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen. The work was co-commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Barbican Centre, and the Elbphilharmonie. It was completed in 2017 and was first performed by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Salonen on March 9, 2017. The piece is dedicated to Yo-Yo Ma. The Cello Concerto is Salonen's third concerto, following his Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto (composed in 2007 and 2009, respectively). In the score program notes, Salonen stated"
"The ""yu"" was adopted by the Korean court in ancient times, where it was known as ""eo"" (hangul: ; hanja: ), and is still used in Confucian ritual music. The ""yu"" was also used in Shao music. Yu (percussion instrument) The yu (; pinyin: yǔ) was a wooden percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back comprising 27 ""teeth"", used since ancient times in China for Confucian court ritual music. It was played by striking its head three times with a bamboo whisk made from approximately 15 stalks of bamboo, and then scraping it across"
"is here a rich, loving, almost Korngoldian lyricism, at first suppressed, at length permitted to flower."" Music for Cello and Orchestra Music for Cello and Orchestra is a composition for cello and orchestra by the American composer Leon Kirchner. The work was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The work was first performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Philadelphia Orchestra under the conductor David Zinman in Philadelphia on October 16, 1992. The piece was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The commission was made possible by a donation from the philanthropists Lillian and"
"was changed to a concerto for Yo-Yo Ma. The composer credited Ma with his help completing the work. Albert started with material drawn two earlier works from 1988, ""Anthem and Processionals"" and ""The Stone Harp."" He started the composition in 1989 and finished in 1990. The premiere was on March 31, 1990 and featured Yo-Yo Ma along with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman. A revised version was featured on a 1993 album, ""The New York Album."" According to Yo-Yo Ma, the composition was a ""kind of catharsis."" It incorporated struggles in his life, including his writer's blocks"
"Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Nyman's ""The Piano Concerto"" and Graham Fitkin's ""Circuit"" (with Noriko Ogawa). Since the mid-1990s, she has also been interested in tango and other Latin dance music, which she describes as ""primitive music, hard to place, both abrasive and tender"". Stott first met her long-time collaborator, the noted American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, in 1978 when she ""discovered a Chinese man in his underpants playing the cello"" in her flat after returning from holiday. (Ma had rented the flat from Stott's flat-mate, violinist Nigel Kennedy, without realising that it was shared). Stott and Ma have worked together since"
"Con moto; con imminenzo e inquieto, 10'00"" <br> The cellist Yo-Yo Ma has stated about the work: ""[Albert] puts [the themes] through all sorts of rhythmical and technical gyrations, and they emerge transformed, in a kind of catharsis. The Concerto, I believe, is an accurate mirror of what was going on in his life [in particular, his struggles with creative blocks and his response to the death of his father, to whose memory the concerto is dedicated]. In that sense, it is like one of the old romantic concertos — an autobiography of the wounded hero. This music is in"
"stick. This is used for more traditional music and sanjo. Bipa The bipa is a pear-shape lute that is a traditional Korean musical instrument which is related to the Chinese ""pipa"", the Vietnamese ""đàn tỳ bà"" and the Japanese ""biwa"". In the past, there were two types of ""bipa"": the ""hyang-bipa"" and the ""dang-bipa"". The former was native to Korea while the latter was imported from Tang dynasty. The bipa fell out of use in the early 20th century. Attempts to revive it initially failed in 1988/89 due to fact that there are no existing professional players but recently was"
"Inspired by Bach Inspired by Bach, a part of ""Sony Classical celebrates Bach"", presented the contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, in a series of six films, each showing a collaboration with artists from different disciplines. Published as six VHS tapes, and three DVD volumes. The music was published as two CDs. The films are: DVD Volume 1 - Suite #1- The Music Garden, directed by Kevin McMahon. After explaining how the first Cello Suite always conjures up images of nature, Yo-Yo Ma recruits architect Julie Moir Messervy to help him"
"It is played lengthwise and strummed. There are also electrified versions of the instrument. Taishōgoto The , or Nagoya harp, is a Japanese stringed musical instrument. The name derives from the Taishō period (1912–1926) when the instrument first appeared. It has also become naturalized in East Africa, often under the name ""Taishokoto"". The ""Taishōgoto"" was developed in 1912 by the musician Gorō Morita in Nagoya. He had received a scholarship from the first prime minister of Japan to study music instruments in Europe and the United States for two years. He subsequently came up with the idea of combining the"
"Yamada ryu, from Western Japan. In traditional Japanese music, a large range of instruments were widely used, such as Koto, Hyoushigi, Kane, Taiko, Ichigenkin, Shamisen, Hocchiku, Shakuhachi, Hichiriki, and Horagai. Each of these instruments have unique sounds and ways of playing them. The Japanese koto has thirteen strings and requires the player to use three finger picks to pluck the strings to create a vibrant melody. The instrument is usually placed on the floor because of its large rectangular size. The Hyoushigi is a simple instrument. It consists of two wood blocks, or bamboo, connected by a thin rope. The"
"Filius Andrea, Vincenzo Rugeri, Seraphin, Gagliano, Guadagnini and other famous artisans. As of 2015, the museum has 1,362 violins in its collection and has allowed more than 3,000 violinists to borrow more than 220 violins over the past decade. The Chimei Museum loans the antique instruments to distinguished musicians, such as Yo-Yo Ma, free of charge. The Chimei Museum has offered reproductions such as canvas posters, simulating sculptures made from bonded marble powder, stationery items and many classic CD recordings performed by top Taiwanese musicians on the rare instruments from the Chi Mei Collection since 1997. The museum has also"
"Mike Block Michael Glen Block (born May 25, 1982) is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as ""the ideal musician of the twenty-first century"" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble. In January, 2014, Block married fiddler and composer Hanneke Cassel. In addition to his solo performances and multiple duo collaborations, Block is most famous for playing second cello alongside Yo-Yo Ma. He"
"second recording, a live recording with the cellist Jan Vogler and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks was released by Neos on 15 July 2010, and the most recent, performed by the cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Staatskapelle Berlin, was released through Decca Records on October 30, 2012. Cello Concerto (Carter) The Cello Concerto is a composition for solo cello and orchestra by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It was first performed in Chicago, Illinois, on September 27, 2001 by Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"
"performer is Oki Kano, who often uses the instrument in contemporary and cross-cultural performances and recordings. The researcher Nobuhiko Chiba has been prominent among those researching and analysing the instrument and its music. The term ""tonkori"" is an onomatopoeic description of the sound of the instrument. The tonkori was also referred to as the ka (""string""). The late-1800s explorer A. H. Savage Landor documented the tonkori, stating that it was referred to only as mukko (""musical instrument""). Linguist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney noted that /tonkori/ was sometimes pronounced with either a voiced or voiceless stop on the initial sound: [donkori] or [tonkori]."