Yo-Yo Ma (født 7. oktober 1955 i Paris) er en fransk-født amerikansk-kinesisk cellist. Han fik sin skolegang i New York City, og blev betragtet som et vidunderbarn. Har har udgivet over 90 musikalbum, og modtaget 18 Grammy Awards.
Historie Han blev født i Paris af kinesiske forældre med musikalsk baggrund. Da Ma var fem år gammel flyttede familien til New York City.
Siden en ung alder har Yo-Yo Ma spillet cello med de største klassiske orkestre i verden, ligesom han har modtaget en lang række internationale priser og anerkendelser for sit arbejde. Blandt andet fik han Polar Music Prize i 2012.Million-musikpris går til garvede mænd, (8. maj 2012), DR
Diskografi
1978: Finzi: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 40 (reissued 2007)
1979: Robert White Sings Beethoven
1980: Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals | Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, OP. 35 | Polonaise, OP. 77 Saint-Saëns and Lalo: Cello Concertos Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, Op.56
1981: Haydn: Cello Concertos Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1 (med Emanuel Ax)
1982: Kreisler, Paganini
1983: Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord Bach: The Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites Shostakovich and Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos Beethoven: Cello Sonatas, Op.5, Nos.1 & 2 Kreisler, Paganini: Works
1984: Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 2 (med Emanuel Ax) Schubert: String Quintet Haydn: Three Favorite Concertos -- Cello, Violin and Trumpet Concertos Beethoven Sonatas, Volume 2, No. 3, Op. 69; No. 5 Op. 102, No. 2
1985: Japanese Melodies Elgar, Walton: Cello Concertos Mozart: Divertimento, K.563 Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (med Emanuel Ax) Schubert: Quintet in C Major
1986: Strauss: Don Quixote; Schoenberg: Concerto Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3 (med Emanuel Ax) Dvořák: Cello Concerto Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.4; Variations
1987: Boccherini: Concerto | J.C. Bach: Sinfonia Concertante and Grand Overture Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor | Schubert: String Quartet No.15 Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas
1988: Schumann: Cello Concerto | Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 | Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 | Funf Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102 (med Emanuel Ax) Dvořák: Piano Trios (med Emanuel Ax and Young Uck Kim) Brahms: Double Concerto; Piano Quartet (tracks 1-3, med Chicago Symphony Orchestra med Claudio Abbado, conductor; tracks 4-7, med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo) Shostakovich: Piano Trio | Cello Sonata (med Emanuel Ax)
1989: Barber: Cello Concerto | Britten: Symphony for Cello & Orchestra Strauss and Britten: Cello Sonatas (med Emanuel Ax) Shostakovich: Quartet No.15 | Gubaidulina: Rejoice! Anything Goes: Stephane Grappelli & Yo-Yo Ma Play (Mostly) Cole Porter Great Cello Concertos: Dvořák, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Schumann The Japanese Album Portrait of Yo-Yo Ma Shostakovich: Symphony No.5; Cello Concerto
1990: Mozart: Serenade No. 10 | Sonata for Bassoon and Cello Brahms: The Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo) 2 CDs: Piano Quartet No.1, op. 25 and No. 3, op. 60; Piano Quartet No. 2, op. 26 A Cocktail Party Strauss: Don Quixote; Die Liebe der Danae
1991: Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas (med Emanuel Ax) Tchaikovsky Gala in Leningrad Brahms: Double Concerto; Berg: Chamber Concerto Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No.1; Piano Concerto No.2; Violin Concerto No.3
1992: Hush (med Bobby McFerrin) Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante | Tchaikovsky: Variations Brahms: String Sextets | Theme and Variations for Piano Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano (med Emanuel Ax) Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony; Bacchanale; Marche Militaire; Carnaval des animaux; Danse Macabre
1993: Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht | String Trio Made in America Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood (VHS) Faure: Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo)
1994: Immortal Beloved Chopin: Chamber Music (med Emanuel Ax (tracks 1-9), Pamela Frank (tracks 1-4), and Ewa Osinska (track 10)) The New York Album Greatest Hits: Gershwin Greatest Hits: Tchaikovsky Beethoven, Schumann: Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo) Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration
1995: Concertos from the New World Greatest Hits: Saint-Saëns Tackling the Monster: Marsalis on Practice (VHS) Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart: Clarinet Trios (med Emanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman) The Essential Yo-Yo Ma
1996: Premieres: Cello Concertos by Danielpour, Kirchner and Rouse Schubert and Boccherini String Quintets Lieberson: King Gesar | Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (med Emanuel Ax (all tracks), tracks 1-7: Omar Ebrahim, Peter Serkin, Andras Adorjan, Deborah Marshall, William Purvis, David Taylor, Stefan Huge, and Peter Lieberson) Appalachia Waltz Schubert: Trout Quintet; Arpeggione Sonata (med Emanuel Ax, Pamela Frank (tracks 1-5), Rebecca Young (tracks 1-5), Edgar Meyer (tracks 1-5), and Barbara Bonney (track 9))
1997: Soul of the Tango, musik af Astor Piazzolla Liberty! The Tango Lesson Seven Years in Tibet Symphony 1997 Mozart: The Piano Quartets (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Jaime Laredo) From Ordinary Things Goldschmidt: The Concertos
1998: John Tavener: The Protecting Veil Erich Wolfgang Korngold/ Schmidt: Music for Strings and Piano Left Hand Inspired by Bach: "Falling Down Stairs" -- Cello Suite No.3 Inspired by Bach Inspired by Bach: "Struggle For Hope" -- Cello Suite No.5 Inspired by Bach: "The Music Garden" -- Cello Suite No.1 Inspired by Bach: "Sarabande" -- Cello Suite No.4 Inspired by Bach: "The Sound of the Carceri" -- Cello Suite No.2 Inspired by Bach: "Six Gestures" -- Cello Suite No.6
1999: John Williams Greatest Hits 1969–1999 My First 79 Years Solo Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Cello Sonata Op.78 Lulie the Iceberg Songs and Dances Franz Joseph Haydn Simply Baroque (med Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra) Dvořák: Piano Quartet No.2 | Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in D major, op. 78 (med Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern (tracks 1-4), and Jaime Laredo (tracks 1-4))
2000: Inspired by Bach, Volume 2 (DVD) Inspired by Bach, Volume 3 (DVD) Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Inspired by Bach, Volume 1 (DVD) Corigliano: Phantasmagoria (The Fantasy Album) Simply Baroque II (med Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra) Appalachian Journey Live in Concert (VHS and DVD) Appalachian Journey (med Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor) Dvořák: Piano Quartet No.2, Sonatina in G, Romantic Pieces
2001: Classic Yo-Yo Classical Hits Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology
2002: Naqoyqatsi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by Philip Glass Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams Silk Road Ensemble: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet Meyer and Bottesini Concertos (med Edgar Meyer (tracks 1-3): Concerto for Cello and Double Bass)
2003: Paris - La Belle Époque Master and Commander: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Obrigado Brazil
2004: The Dvořák Album Vivaldi's Cello Obrigado Brazil Live Silk Road Ensemble: Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
2005: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone, arranged and conducted by Ennio Morricone Memoirs of a Geisha (soundtrack) (med Itzhak Perlman) (komponeret og dirigeret af John Williams)
2007: Appassionato Dvořák in Prague: a Celebration (DVD)
2008: Silk Road Ensemble: New Impossibilities Songs of Joy & Peace
2009: "Cinema Paradiso" on Chris Botti in Boston 30 Years Outside the Box—Box set includes two bonus disks med various previously unreleased recordings
2010: Mendelssohn: Piano Trios and Songs without Words | Beethoven Ghost Piano Trio (med Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman (tracks 1-8), Pamela Frank (track 14))
2011: The Goat Rodeo Sessions (med Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)
2015: Before this World (med James Taylor) Songs from the Arc of Life (med Kathryn Stott)
2016: Yo-Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble: Sing Me Home
2018
Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
2020 Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (med Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Barenboim) Not Our First Goat Rodeo (med Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile)
Referencer
Eksterne henvisninger
Yo-Yo Mas officielle hjemmeside
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