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Scheduled tour dates are below:

Sun, Jan. 11th, 2009 07:00 PM Royce Hall-UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)

Sun, Jan. 11th, 2009 TBD Royce Hall-UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)

Fri, Mar. 6th, 2009 08:00 PM Providence Performing Arts (Providence, RI)

Sun, Mar. 8th, 2009 03:00 PM Boston Symphony Hall (Boston, MA)

Mon, Mar. 9th, 2009 08:00 PM Boston Symphony Hall (Boston, MA)

Wed, Mar. 11th, 2009 TBD Music Center at Strathmore (Rockville, MD)

Fri, Mar. 13th, 2009 TBD Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor, MI)

Sat, Mar. 14th, 2009 TBD Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor, MI)

Mon, Mar. 16th, 2009 TBD Orchestra Hall-MN (Minneapolis, MN)

Tue, Mar. 17th, 2009 TBD Orchestra Hall-MN (Minneapolis, MN)

Thu, Mar. 19th, 2009 TBD Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto, ON)

Fri, Mar. 20th, 2009 TBD Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto, ON)

Mon, Mar. 30th, 2009 TBD Eisenhower Auditorium (University Park, PA)

Thu, Apr. 2nd, 2009 TBD Alys Robinson Stephens PAC (Birmingham, AL)

Sat, May. 2nd, 2009 08:00 PM Tilles Center (Greenvale, NY)

Tue, May. 5th, 2009 TBD Jones Hall (Houston, TX)

Wed, May. 6th, 2009 TBD Peace Center (Greenville, SC)

Tue, May. 12th, 2009 08:00 PM Chan Performing Arts Center (Vancouver, BC)

Fri, Jun. 5th, 2009 08:00 PM Alice Tully Hall (New York, NY)

Fri, Aug. 14th, 2009 08:00 PM Ravinia (Highland Park, IL) Related Concert Tickets

Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a professor of music. His family moved to New York when he was four years old.

At a very young age, Ma began studying violin, and later viola, before taking up the cello in 1960 at age four. The child prodigy began performing before audiences at age five, and performed for President John F. Kennedy when he was seven. At eight years old, he appeared on American television in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. By fifteen years of age, Ma had graduated from Trinity School in New York and appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of the Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations.

Ma currently plays with his own Silk Road Ensemble, which has the goal of bringing together musicians from diverse countries all of which are historically linked via the Silk Road, and records on the Sony Classical label.  Ma’s primary performance instrument is the Domenico Montagnana 1733 cello built in Venice and nicknamed Petunia. This cello is more than 270 years old and valued at US$2.5 million. He has been referred to as “omnivorous” by critics, and possesses a more eclectic repertoire than is typical for classical musicians.