Published on Nov 2, 2016

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA

Prices: 280, 480, 600, 780, 900, 1080, 1280

Features: Yo-Yo Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world. On November 16th, virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will perform in concert hall of NCPA in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma's multi-faceted career is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination.

Yo-Yo Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world, his recital and chamber music activities, and his work with the Silk Road Project, for which he serves as Artistic Director. He draws inspiration from a wide circle of collaborators, each fueled by the artists' interactions. Mr. Ma is also widely recognized for his strong commitment to educational programs that bring the world into the classroom and the classroom into the world. While touring, he takes time whenever possible to conduct master classes as well as more informal programs for students – musicians and non-musicians alike. He has also reached young audiences through appearances on Arthur, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street.

One of Mr. Ma's goals is the exploration of music as a means of communication and as a vehicle for the migrations of ideas across a range of cultures throughout the world. Expanding upon this interest, in 1998, Mr. Ma established the Silk Road Project to promote the study of the cultural, artistic and intellectual traditions along the ancient Silk Road trade route that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Since the Project's inception, more than 60 works have been commissioned specifically for the Silk Road Ensemble, which tours annually. At the invitation of the New York City Department of Education, in 2009, the Silk Road Project began a multi-year partnership with cultural and educational organizations to pilot Silk Road Connect, a multidisciplinary middle school engagement program designed to spark a lifelong passion for learning. In Silk Road Connect, visual and aural elements are used alongside the experiences of creating and collaborating, making direct connections to classroom work in subjects such as Social Studies, English Language Arts, the sciences and the arts.

The Silk Road Ensemble
The Silk Road Ensemble is a collective of musicians, composers and performing artists from more than 20 countries around the world. Many of the musicians first came together under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma at a workshop at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts in 2000.

In sharing traditions from various cultures, the Ensemble develops and performs new music and multimedia pieces, exploring and expanding contemporary musical crossroads.

The Silk Road Ensemble has recorded five albums and performed to critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and North America. The Ensemble's most recent recording, Off the Map, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2011.

PROGRAMME

Programme	Artist
Fanfare for Gaita and Suona	Cristina Pato, WU Tong
Traditional Malian Ichichila	Arr. Shane Shanahan
If You Shall Return...	Sandeep Das, Kojiro Umezaki, HU Jianbing
Green (Vincent's Tune)	WU Man arr. Ljova
Moon Over Guan Mountain	ZHAO Jiping
Playlist for an Extreme Occasion	Vijay Iyer
——Intermission——
King Ashoka	Sandeep Das
Kio	Michio Mamiya
Going Home	Antonin Dvorak
Arr. Jeremy	Kittel
Take the "A" Train	Billy Strayhorn & Arr. Shane Shanahan

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