Nicole Lee
KennedyCenter said violoncellist Yo-yo Ma , actress Juli Andrews , singers Paul Simon and Herbie Hancock will attend in a concert held in January next year. The purpose of this concert tribute to former President John F. Kennedy his passion for the arts. This concert held at the Kennedy Center in January 20, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy became President. The contents of the anniversary program, reproduce in the 1960s Concerts for YoungPeople by Young People, exhibition and the new theater works.
Born in Paris in 1955 to Chinese parents, Yo-Yo Ma began his cello studies with his father at the age of four. He later studied with Janos Scholz and, in 1962, became the pupil of Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School of Music. He received the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize in 1978 and is a graduate of Harvard University, from which he also received an honorary doctorate in 1991. Ma and his wife, Jill, have two children, Nicholas and Emily.
Yo-yo Ma is an exclusive Sony classical artist, and his discography of over fifty albums includes thirteen GRAMMY Award winners. It also demonstrates his wide-ranging interests. In addition to the standard concerto, chamber and solo repertoire, he has recorded many of the works he has commissioned or premiered. His most recent recordings reflect his diverse musical interests and his quest for stimulating new sounds.
Top of the International American-born Chinese violoncellist Yo-yo Ma.Be regarded as cellist in contemporary youth ,being situated the number 1 in the world.
Yo-yo Ma born in the romantic French. Living in the cheerful American. Also has the humility of Chinese descent. He is good at playing the sensitive touch of different cultures. He also to master music in the multi-level complex. Yo-Yo Ma, not only in classical music having the world at his feet, also branched out into jazz and folk music.
Awards
1986 Grammy Award for Cello Concertos by Elgar and Walton
Awards
1986 Grammy Award for Cello Concertos by Elgar and Walton
1990 Grammy Award for Cello Concertos by Barber and Britten Gramophone Magazine Award for Brahms: Piano Quartets
1991 Grammy Award for Brahms: Piano Quartets
1992 "Top Classical Crossover Album" in Billboard Magazine for Hush (with Bobby McFerrin)
1993 Grammy Award for Brahms: Cello Sonatas Grammy Award for concerted works by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev Diapason "5" Award for "Made in America" (Music by Bernstein, Kirchner, Gershwin & Ives)
1994 Grammy Award for Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
1995 Grammy Award and Diapason "5" Award for "The New York Album" (Music by Stephen Albert, Bartok and Bloch) Grammy Award for Trios by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms (with Richard Stoltzman and Emanuel Ax
1996 Diapason D'Or Award for Schubert: Trout Quintet & Arpeggione Sonata
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