Yo-Yo Ma News

Ex- MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young is recording a "top-secret" cover song with of Ashland, Kentucky rockers HYDROGYN .

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra got a world-class endorsement for its Young Composers Project from none other than Yo-Yo Ma.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Monday named famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma to the newly created post of creative consultant, beginning in January.

Everything you've heard about Yo-Yo Ma is true. If he is not the greatest living musician, I don't know who is.

He's a cello master. A classical impresario. A 15-time Grammy winner. But on Tuesday morning, he was simply the nutty music professor.

President Barack Obama has recruited some of the biggest names in entertainment to help guide arts initiatives as part of his President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

It was the hottest classical music ticket of the year - Yo-Yo Ma, one night only, with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, playing DvorA k's Cello Concerto in B minor.

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John Flansburgh and John Linnell , the dynamic duo better known as They Might Be Giants, played a few tunes from their new singalong story book at the Borders in Braintree the other night.

Along with Yo-Yo Ma, shown at rehearsal, the orchestra hosted Julian Kuerti, a candidate for its next music director.

Talk to Mark O'Connor, fiddler extraordinaire and sometime collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, and you glimpse not only where music has been but where it's going.

Among the composers who have written works for her are Phillip Glass, Terry Riley and Tan Dun, whose pipa concerto she will perform at the Koger Center with the South Carolina Philharmonic on Thursday.

'It was definitely the thing that hipped me to the whole idea of music as a creative pursuit,' says Spalding.

There are relatively few musicians who are universally viewed as supreme masters of their respective instruments.

Unlike most classical box sets these days, this one is very, very expensive. Limited to 7,500 copies, it is selling in the US for an MSRP of $790; Amazon is selling it for $710. Interestingly, it is much cheaper in France, where Amazon is selling it for EUR 400 .

After piling up 10 Grammy awards and three decades of critical raves, cellist Yo-Yo Ma can play where he wants, when he wants and with anyone he chooses.

The 11th China Shanghai International Arts Festival opened Sunday evening as world-class artists convened in the host city of east China's Shanghai.

Music. Dance. Theatre. Take your pick, ranging from something classical like the symphony or the ballet to something modern like musical theatre or fusion dance, there's a world of sights and sounds for you to enjoy.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra hasn't had a gala in a decade. Celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma hasn't performed here since 2002.

If you're a fan of string music, next week looks like a "Battle of the Grammy Award-winning Superstars" with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Emerson String Quartet both coming to local stages.