{"id":15459,"date":"2024-02-22T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/?post_type=people&#038;p=15459"},"modified":"2024-02-22T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T03:39:30","slug":"yo-yo-ma","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.svmusicfestival.org\/staging\/people\/yo-yo-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo-Yo-Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yo-Yo Ma\u2019s multi-faceted career is testament to his belief in culture\u2019s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works for cello, bringing communities together to explore culture\u2019s role in society, or engaging unexpected musical forms, Yo-Yo strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Most recently, Yo-Yo began Our Common Nature, a cultural journey to celebrate the ways that nature can reunite us in pursuit of a shared future. Our Common Nature follows the Bach Project, a 36-community, six-continent tour of J. S. Bach\u2019s cello suites paired with local cultural programming. Both endeavors reflect Yo-Yo\u2019s lifelong commitment to stretching the boundaries of genre and tradition to understand how music helps us to imagine and build a stronger society.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yo-Yo is an advocate for a future guided by humanity, trust, and understanding. Among his many roles, Yo-Yo is a United Nations Messenger of Peace, the first artist ever appointed to the World Economic Forum\u2019s board of trustees, a member of the board of Nia Tero, the US-based nonprofit working in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and movements worldwide, and the founder of the global music collective Silkroad.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">His discography of more than 120 albums (including 19 Grammy Award winners) ranges from iconic renditions of the Western classical canon to recordings that defy categorization, such as \u201cHush\u201d with Bobby McFerrin and the \u201cGoat Rodeo Sessions\u201d with Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Yo-Yo\u2019s recent releases include \u201cSix Evolutions,\u201d his third recording of Bach\u2019s cello suites, and \u201cSongs of Comfort and Hope,\u201d created and recorded with pianist Kathryn Stott in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yo-Yo\u2019s latest album, \u201cBeethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 and Op. 1, No. 3,\u201d is the second in a new series of Beethoven recordings with pianist Emanuel Ax and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yo-Yo was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age four and three years later moved with his family to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2010), Kennedy Center Honors (2011), the Polar Music Prize (2012), and the Birgit Nilsson Prize (2022). He has performed for nine American presidents, most recently on the occasion of President Biden\u2019s inauguration.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yo-Yo and his wife have two children. 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