Yo-Yo Ma's tight concert schedule includes concerts with world-renowned orchestras, solo concerts and chamber music. Working with different musicians can bring him different inspirations, including Axe, Barenboim, Eisenbach, Pamela Frank, Jeffrey Kahane, Young Uck Kim, laredo, Bobby McPherine, Edgar Meyer, Mark Morris, Peter Selking, Stein and Shi. Through the interaction with musicians, it transcends the boundaries of a single musical style. His biggest goal is to turn music into a language of communication, cross different races in the world and narrow the distance between people. In order to achieve this goal, he devoted himself to studying Chinese traditional musical instruments, the jungle music of Kalahari in Africa and so on.
His interest in music is not limited to this. Yo-Yo Ma just set up the Silk Road Project a few days ago to re-introduce the culture, art and humanities of the ancient Silk Road caravan (from East Asia to Europe, including India, Tibet, Persia and Greece) to the world. In order to rediscover the national cultural heritage of the ancient Silk Road and find the voice representing the local tradition, the task force specially went to the Silk Road for ethnic exploration, and the "Silk Road Task Force" will serve as a database for related cultural and educational plans in the future. In addition to planning this case, Yo-Yo Ma will also play new songs specially written for Silk Road (including concerto written for Silk Road Ensemble). Sony Classical also plans to release three "Silk Road" albums, and other multimedia presentation methods such as "Silk Road Website" will also be launched. This innovative Silk Road project will also participate in the Salzburg Music Festival in 20001year and the Smithsonian Folk Music Festival in 2002.
From 65438 to 0997, Yo-Yo Ma spent many years completing an innovative interpretation combining cello suites with various performing arts. The content not only includes his concerts around the world, cello suites's re-recording, but more importantly, the connotation of "Bach's inspiration". The performance * * * is divided into six films (one for each of the six suites), starting with Bach's music, and then combining with the inspiration inspired by Yo-Yo Ma, together with artists from different fields (including expert figure skaters tovell and Dean, landscape architect Messervy, directors Iguoyang and Gillard) to create a new look of Bach. The film was broadcast on "TV Station" and major TV networks around the world, and won many awards, including two Emmy Awards, 16 Canadian Gemini Award nomination and several international film festival awards. The video was released by Sony Classical Music Company.
In order to develop cello repertoire, Yo-Yo Ma often plays cello music unknown in the 20th century, and many modern composers tailor new music for him. He has premiered for many composers' new works, including Steven Albert, Richard Daniel Poole, Harbeson, Leon Kirchner, Peter Lieberson, Christopher Rouse, Sheng Zongliang, Tan Dun and john williams. These works were not only written for him, but also played an important role in the composer's creative process.
Yo-Yo Ma is the exclusive musician of Sony classical music. He recorded nearly 50 albums of different styles (he won the Grammy Award of 13), which showed his extensive musical interests. In addition to the cello repertoire of classical music, he also recorded many new works premiered by him and music specially written for him. In addition, many of his cross-border recordings, such as Nature with Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma-Apara Folk Waltz with Maier and O 'Connor, and Soul of Tango with piazzolla, are deeply loved by the audience. In the spring of 2000, it is planned to release a sequel to Apara Waltz, A Journey to Apara. Its latest recording release is Baroque in Flowers, including Bach's aria and Cerini's concerto. koopman conducts the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra as a wind instrument (Yo-Yo Ma's stradivari cello is a baroque instrument). Another "solo" includes works by Ke Dayi, David Wild, Qi Erpin, Sheng Zongliang and others, as well as a newly arranged solo version of O 'Connor. The whole album is a cappella performance, as a prelude to another "Silk Road" project, expressing different themes such as drifting and rooting, innovation and tradition from different cultural perspectives. Although Yo-Yo Ma spans many musical fields, he still maintains the position of the best-selling musician in classical music. As soon as his new album was released, it immediately hit the "billboard" classic music bestseller list, staying at the top of 15 for a long time, and even four albums were on the list at the same time.
Besides constantly bringing new feelings to the audience on the music stage, Yo-Yo Ma is also committed to the promotion of music education. He not only encourages young people to get in touch with music, but also hopes that they will further participate in creation. During the tour, Yo-Yo Ma will use his spare time to guide master students and even participate in informal activities of some students (including non-music majors). At the same time, he also developed "family concerts", such as performing at the opening ceremony of a series of "family concerts" in Carnegie Hall; Leading a small audience into the music world in TV programs such as Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street. Yo-Yo Ma strives to create a music space for children and make music and creativity a part of children's lives in rich and vivid ways.
1In the summer of 999, Yo-Yo Ma cooperated with the famous conductor Barenbon and performed and studied with a group of outstanding young musicians from the Middle East. The event was called "City of Culture 1999" and was held in Weimar, Germany.
Yo-Yo Ma 1955 was born in Paris. At the age of 4, his father began to learn cello and moved to new york with his family. After that, he studied under Leonard Ross at Juilliard. 65438-0976 graduated from structural anthropology of Harvard University, which opened another window for him besides the traditional conservatory education. Yo-Yo Ma and his wife have a pair of children.
At present, the two musical instruments used by Yo-Yo Ma are the Montagni cello made by 1733 and the Davidoff Stradivarius cello made by 17 12.