One of the best classical artists of his time is Yo-Yo Ma, an American cellist of Chinese origin.
Continue reading to explore more about his educational background and other interesting facts.
Where did Yo-Yo Ma go to college and high school? Did Yo-Yo Ma go to film school?
Ma had his first public engagement as a soloist at age five and started playing the cello at age four.
After attending the Juilliard School of Music in New York, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in the year 1976.
Ma’s voice may be heard on the 1997 soundtrack by John Williams for the Hollywood movie Seven Years in Tibet.
He was on the soundtracks of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000.
On the soundtrack for the movie Memoirs of a Geisha from 2005, he once more worked with Williams. Additionally, he collaborated with Italian composer Ennio Morricone, with whom he recorded The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from the Dollars Trilogy as well as Once Upon a Time in America, The Mission, and The Untouchables.
