Yo-Yo Ma
Birthday
1955/10/07 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know as
یو-یو ما
Biography
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received ...Read more
Acting
(1998) Appointment With The Wise Old Dog
as Self
(2000) Appalachian Journey Live In Concert
as Self
(2012) The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live
as Self
(1997) Bach Cello Suite #1: The Music Garden
as Self
(1997) Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of the Carceri
as Self
(2018) Won't You Be My Neighbor?
as Self - Musician and Fred's Friend
(1997) Falling Down Stairs
as Self
(1997) Sarabande
as Self
(2017) Blue Gold: American Jeans
as Self
(2022) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Yo-Yo Ma
(2003) Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano
as Self (cellist)
(2004) Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
as Self
(1997) Struggle for Hope
as Self
(2016) The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
as Self
(2024) Music by John Williams
as Self - Cellist
(2009) Chris Botti in Boston
as Self
(2017) The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
(2018) Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
(1997) The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
as Self
(2018) Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
as Self - Cellist
(1985) Ozawa
as Self
(1995) Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy
as Self
(2015) Yo Yo Ma: The Bach Project– Six Cello Suites
as Self
(1993) Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration
as Self
(2024) Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée
as Self
(2025) Half Moon
as Self
(1997) Six Gestures
as Self
(2025) Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2012) How to Grow a Band
as Self
(1992) The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
(2005) The Colbert Report
as Self - Guest
(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
(2019) Desus & Mero
as Self
(1999) The West Wing
as Yo-Yo Ma
(2020) Deeper Look from New York
as Self
(2014) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self (voice)
(1993) Frasier
as Tom (voice)
(1996) Arthur
as Yo-Yo Ma (voice)
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1998) Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
(1989) The Simpsons
as Yo-Yo Ma (voice)
(2018) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self - Guest