Yo-Yo Ma
Ator, Composição, Produção
7 de outubro de 1955 (70 anos)
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 performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 19 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.
Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize in 1978, The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Davidov cello, made in 1712 by Antonio Stradivari.
Ma's mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, composer and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University (now relocated in Taoyuan, Taiwan; predecessor of the present-day Nanjing University and Southeast University). They both migrated from the Republic of China to France during the Chinese Civil War. Ma's sister, Yeou-Cheng, played the violin and piano professionally before obtaining a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and becoming a pediatrician. The family moved to Boston when Ma was seven. ...
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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.
Ma has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize in 1978, The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Davidov cello, made in 1712 by Antonio Stradivari.
Ma's mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, composer and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University (now relocated in Taoyuan, Taiwan; predecessor of the present-day Nanjing University and Southeast University). They both migrated from the Republic of China to France during the Chinese Civil War. Ma's sister, Yeou-Cheng, played the violin and piano professionally before obtaining a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and becoming a pediatrician. The family moved to Boston when Ma was seven. ...
Source: Article "Yo-Yo Ma" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmografia
| 2025 | Half Moon · as Self |
| 2025 | Jacqueline du Pre: Genius and Tragedy · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | Music by John Williams · as Self - Cellist |
| 2022 | Glass Onion · as Yo-Yo Ma |
| 2019 | Desus & Mero (2019) · as Self |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? · as Self - Musician And Fred's Friend |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover · as Self - Guest |
| 2018 | Mister Rogers: It's You I Like · as Self |
| 2017 | The Words That Built America · as Self - Reader: Declaration Of Independence |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2014 | Blue Gold: American Jeans · as SelfNo Plex |
| 2014 | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver · as Self (voice) |
| 2012 | The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live · as Self |
| 2011 | How to Grow a Band · as SelfNo Plex |
| 2009 | Chris Botti in Boston · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report · as Self - Guest |
| 1999 | The West Wing · as Yo-Yo Ma |
| 1997 | Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach · as Self |
| 1997 | |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1996 | Arthur · as Yo-Yo Ma (voice) |
| 1993 | Frasier · as Tom (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons · as Yo-Yo Ma (voice) |
| 2021 |
| 2024 | Facing the Wind · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha · as Musician |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi · as Musician |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · as Musician |
| 1997 | Seven Years in Tibet · as Musician |
| 1985 | Taipei Story · as Musician |