Yo-yo ma biography pdf
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Yo-Yo Ma
American cellist (born 1955)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.
Musical artist
Yo-Yo Ma[a] (born October 7, 1955) is a French-American cellist.[1] Born to Chinese[2] parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four.
Yo-yo ma biography pdf
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, incl