Yo-Yo Ma News

Rhiannon Giddens and Yo-Yo Ma have teamed up together for a new song called 'Build A House.'

A beautifully unique house concert series from their living room! Multi Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer Mark O'Connor and his wife, Maggie O'Connor, a celebrated conservatory-trained classical violinist with a bluegrass soul, open up their home for a new, ticketed live weekly online concert series, “Mondays with Mark and Maggie O'Connor Live!,” produced by OurConcerts.live. The series launches on Monday, June 22, at 9pm ET/8pm CT/6pm PT.

How can music use physical movement to convey individual and collective change? Ensemble Connect, Carnegie Hall's resident fellowship ensemble, asked and answered this question through an innovative performance in January 2020. Working with a choreographer and theater director, the musicians found that their physical movement in their performance could be used with a powerful and poignant effect that enhanced the experience of the music for themselves and for the audience.

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gaby Moreno, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and Vanessa Williams will lead Memorial For Us All broadcasts on Sundays at 6:00 pm ET from June 14 through July 5, 2020.

The American Composers Forum (ACF) and New Music USA will jointly receive the League of American Orchestras' highest honor, the Gold Baton, the League announced today.

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Yo-Yo Ma and Mo offer a series of playful experiments that show how art and music inspire each other. Watch, listen or even join in from home with paper and doodling implements!

Emmy Award-winning Billy Porter (Earthworm) will be joined by Tony winning Broadway star Cynthia Erivo (Miss Ladybird), pianist Jamie Cullum (Miss Spider) and star of Pitch Perfect, rapper and actor Utkarsh Ambudkar (Centipede) in today's episode of James and The Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.

Welcome to 'Cabaret Corner', a series devoted to having meaningful conversations with change-making cabaret artists.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing arts released its upcoming schedule for digital programming.

The Broad Stage has announced its 2020/21 season. The announcement comes at a delicate time as the arts are reeling from the pandemic.

WRTI 90.1 will continue to broadcast concerts by the talented young musicians of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO). The last concert, originally scheduled for May 24, has now been changed to May 31, 2020 The broadcast will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. and WRTI's Kevin Gordon is host.

Singer-songwriters Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki invite you to join them in The Music Room for three new songs. Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma's #SongsOfComfort the team is writing and recording a video album about daily life 'on pause' in New York City.

Kelli O'Hara and opera star Ailyn Pérez will lead the fourth and fifth Memorial For Us All broadcasts on Sunday, May 24 and Sunday, May 31 at 6:00 pm ET, respectively.

Carnegie Hall continues its new online series Live with Carnegie Hall this Thursday, May 21 at 2PM EDT with an episode paying tribute to the late American cellist Lynn Harrell. Harrell's half-century career placed him in the highest echelon of performing artists and a roster of acclaimed cellists including Gautier Capuçon and more.

 Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform J.S. Bach's six cello suites live from the studios of public media producer WGBH on Sunday, May 24 at 3:00 p.m. ET, a memorial for those we have lost in the pandemic and a tribute to the resilience of our communities.

Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) today announces the cancellation of its 2020 season, for the first time in its 53 year history. This includes SPAC's summer resident companies New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as 'Not Our First Goat Rodeo' featuring Yo-Yo Ma, and 'SPAC on Stage.' SPAC along with its board of directors made the decision to suspend its programming this summer in recognition of the continued threat to health and safety caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Tanglewood live performance and education programs, scheduled to take place June 19-August 27, are canceled due to concerns over spread of covid-19. Season offerings will now take place through tanglewood 2020 online festival, a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams.

In today's Quarantine Qs, we check in with Lorin Latarro- choreographer of Mrs. Doubtfire.