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(双语)世界著名大提琴家马友友 Yo-Yo Ma

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2007-08-10 13:21

Yo-Yo Ma  (b. October 7, 1955) is a French-born Chinese American celli

st of world renown and the winner of multiple Grammy Awards.
Biography
Childhood and early career
Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a conductor and composer. His family moved to New York when he was seven years old.
Ma began studying violin, and later viola, before taking up the cello in 1960 at age four. The child prodigy began performing before audiences at age five. At eight, he appeared on American television in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. By age fifteen, Ma had already graduated from high school and appeared as soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of the Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations.
Ma studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Leonard Rose, and attended Columbia University, before enrolling at Harvard University, but began questioning whether to continue his studies until, in the 1970s, Pablo Casals' performing inspired him.
However, even before that time, he had steadily gained fame, and had performed with most of the world's major orchestras. His recordings and performances of the Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites are particularly acclaimed, and he has also played a good deal of chamber music—often with the pianist Emanuel Ax, with whom he has a close friendship back from their days together at the Juilliard in New York.
He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1976. In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
Later life and career
Ma married his long-time girlfriend, Jill Hornor, in 1977. They have two children, Nicholas and Emily. They currently reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ma's elder sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, also born in Paris, is a violinist, married to Michael Dadap, a New York guitarist. Together, they currently run the Children's Orchestra Society in Manhasset, Long Island, New York.
Ma currently plays with his own Silk Road Ensemble, which has the goal of bringing together musicians from diverse countries all of which are historically linked via the Silk Road, and records on the Sony Classical label.
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Domenico Montagnana 1733 cello built in Venice and nicknamed Petunia. This cello, more than two hundred and seventy years old and valued at US $2.5 million, was lost in the fall of 1999 when Ma accidentally left the instrument in a taxicab in New York City. It was later recovered unharmed. Another of Ma's celli, the Davidov Stradivarius, was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pre who passed it to him upon her death, though its current owner remains anonymous. Though Du Pre previously voiced her frustration with the "unpredictability" of this cello, Ma attributed the comment to du Pre' s impassioned style of playing, adding that the Stradivarius cello must be "coaxed" by the player. It was until recently set up in a Baroque manner, since Ma exclusively played Baroque music on it. He also owns a cello made of carbon fibre, by the Luis and Clark company of Boston.
In 1997 he was featured on John Williams' soundtrack to the Hollywood film, Tibet. In 2000, he was heard on the soundtrack of the blockbuster foreign film hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He collaborated with Williams again on the original score for 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha.
Yo-Yo Ma has also worked with world renowned Italian composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded Morricone 's compositions of the Dollars Trilogy including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Playing style
Ma has been referred to as “omnivorous” by critics, and possesses a more eclectic repertoire than is typical for classical musicians. A sampling of his versatility in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire would include his recordings of Baroque pieces using period instruments, American bluegrass music; traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; the tangos of Argentinian composer ?stor Piazzolla; as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece, Naqoyqatsi. In 2006, a soundtrack album was released of the music from the 2005 film, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Appearances
Ma has appeared in an episode of the animated children's television series, Arthur (though D.W. kept calling him "Yo Ma-Ma"), as well as on The West Wing (episode "No?l ", in which he performed the prelude to the Bach Cello Suite No.1 at a Christmas dinner at the White House), Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In The Simpsons episode "Missionary: Impossible", Ma runs after Homer Simpson along with many other frequent guests of PBS. He also starred in the visual accompaniment to his recordings of the Bach: Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello In the Seinfeld [TV series] ( The Ticket ). Kramer says Yo-Yo Ma out of nowhere.
Ma has also been seen with Apple Computer and former Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. Ma is often invited to press events for Jobs's companies, and has performed on stage during event keynote presentations.
Ma was the first performer on September 11, 2002, at the site of the World Trade Center, while the first of the names of the dead were read in rememberance on the first anniversary of the attack on the WTC. He played the Sarabande movement from Bach's Suite in C minor (#5).
He performed a special arrangement of Sting's "Fragile" with Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ma was named Peace Ambassador by United Nations then Secretary-General Kofi Annan in January 2006.
Ma was a guest on the Not My Job segment of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on April 7, 2007, where he won for listener Thad Moore.
Awards and recognitions
2006 Dan David Prize
Many Grammy Awards:
1999 Glenn Gould Prize
2005 Princeton University，Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) (honoris causa)

     马友友，出生于1955年10月7日，是法国出生的世界著名的美籍华人大提琴家，是多项格莱美奖获得者。