Biography
Yo-Yo Ma 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. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven 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 20 Grammy Awards.
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Awards & recognition
- Birgit Nilsson Prize · 2022
- Praemium Imperiale · 2021
- Time 100 · 2020
- doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University · 2016
- Vilcek Prize · 2013
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- Polar Music Prize · 2012
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 2011
- Dan David Prize · 2006
- Great Immigrants Award · 2006
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize · 2006
- Echo Klassik – Classical Music without Borders · 2002
- Echo Klassik – Instrumentalist of the Year · 2000
- Avery Fisher Prize · 1978
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Emmy Award
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Glenn Gould Prize
- honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Kennedy Center Honors
- Library of Congress Living Legend
- National Medal of Arts
- Order "Danaker"
Filmography24 titles
The West Wing
The Vietnam War
Music by John Williams
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The Simpsons
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Frasier
Memoirs of a Geisha
Taipei Story
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Seven Years in Tibet
Glass Onion
Arthur
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
The Colbert Report
How to Grow a Band
Blue Gold: American Jeans
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Naqoyqatsi
The Words That Built America
Desus & Mero
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy