By: Vivian Lou and Devin Dang

Yo-Yo Ma
About Yo-Yo Ma
Chinese name:
Chinese American
cellist.
Paris)
- styles of music such as
classical, Chinese, and Brazilian.
-He learned to play the cello at 4 and moved to
New York when he was 5.
Biography
Juilliard, Columbia, and Harvard

was
was a violinist and
professor of music.
Family
Major contributions & achievements

-Ma has recorded 75 albums.
Juilliard, Columbia, and Harvard
-He was named Peace Ambassador by UN in
2006.
Career Path
-He has played music for the soundtracks of
movies such as Seven Years in Tibet and
Memoirs of a Geisha.
-He founded the Silk Road Connect which
educates kids in poorly resourced communities
about the performing arts.
-was at the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the
100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.
-He also performed during the opening
ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City.
- White House
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Notable Performances
(Why did we choose
this person?) wei shenme wo xuan zhege ren?
He plays good music and he is very talented.
He was one of the few people we recognized
on the list.
What did we learn from this project?
Yo-Yo Ma is very talented, even when he was
young and is more famous and influential than
we first thought.
1. What instrument does he play?
2. What kind of music does he play?
3. How old was he when he started to play?
Questions
Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/yo-yo-ma-9390099
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma
www.silkroadproject.
org/Education/SilkRoadConnect/tabid/4
55/Default.aspx
http://translate.google.com/