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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble continue to explore the musical cultures that flourished along the Silk Road – the ancient trade route between China and the West – with their latest recording for Sony Classical, entitled Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon. The recording will be released just as the performers embark on a brief tour of major U.S. cities. Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon will be released on Tuesday, April 5, 2005.
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Rhiannon Giddens new opera, 'Omar,' is bound for San Francisco / San Francisco Chronicle
Posted At : November 17, 2021 12:00 AM
The San Francisco Chronicle's Joshua Kosman writes...."Omar," a new operatic collaboration by Grammy Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens and composer Michael Abels, is scheduled for a world premiere in May at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C, after which the piece will be performed by a consortium of co-commissioning companies, including the San Francisco Opera. A spokesperson for ...
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Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens Announces a New Era for Silkroad / WorldMusicCentral.org
Posted At : December 16, 2020 12:00 AM
Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens has announced four new artistic world music and contemporary music projects that pair with community outreach and educational programs. Home to a concert series, educational programming, children's book, musical commissions, and media collaborations, The American Silkroad will shine a light on American music in its truest form: a melting pot of cross-cultural collaborat...
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Rhiannon Giddens aims at 1800s America in her Silkroad plans / The New York Times
Posted At : November 13, 2020 12:00 AM
Under its new artistic director, the cross-cultural music organization will start a project devoted to the transcontinental railroad.
Rhiannon Giddens's first major undertaking as Silkroad artistic director will be The American Silkroad, a multiyear project focused on the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century. It was initially surprising news when it was a...
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Silkroad names Rhiannon Giddens as new artistic director / THE UNDEFEATED
Posted At : July 30, 2020 12:00 AM
Folk artist, banjo evangelist, Grammy winner and MacArthur genius grant recipient Rhiannon Giddens will be the new artistic director of Silkroad. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the artistic organization in 1998 to foster multicultural connection and collaboration among music artists across the world, sort of like an ongoing United Nations jam session. Silkroad announced the decision Tuesday morning. Giddens' f...
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Johnny Gandelsman explores Bach Cello Suites at 'Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series' / NOOZHAWK
Posted At : February 25, 2020 12:00 AM
The Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series will present Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman in A Violinist Explores Bach's Cello Suites, 7 p.m. Friday, March 20, at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Gandelsman will perform as part of the 40th annual Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series. Since its inception by founder Rose Knoles in 1981, the concert series has b...
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Silkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh's 'Wedding' at Tanglewood / theStrad
Posted At : January 8, 2020 12:00 AM
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a group of musicians getting together and seeing what might happen when strangers meet,' Ma said. To mark...
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Watch Silkroad's Haruka Fujii and Kaoru Watanabev with dueling taiko drums
Posted At : May 19, 2019 12:00 AM
Haruka Fujii and Kaoru Watanabe prepare to open Pauchi Saski's "Elektra" with dueling taiko drums. "Elektra" is one of five pieces that comprise "Heroes Take Their Stands," a new multi-media work from the Silkroad Ensemble about what it means to be fearlessly human. Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998 as a reminder that even as rapid globalization resulted in division, it brought extraordinary po...
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Sandeep Das to receive 2019 Guggenheim fellowship / MIG
Posted At : April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
The Guggenheim fellowship announced its fellows for this year on April 9, 2019 and two Indian-Americans have made it to the list. Tabla maestro Sandeep Das and chemistry professor Dr Neal K. Devaraj have been recognised for their exceptional work in the field of art and science. The fellowship is awarded by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for further development of artists and scholars who have...
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The Cristina Pato Quartet, set for Vancouver's Chan Centre / The Georgia Straight
Posted At : March 28, 2019 12:00 AM
Having just returned from New Zealand-and having been in transit from Auckland to the WOMAD festival in New Plymouth on the day the Christchurch massacre happened-Cristina Pato is understandably reluctant to discuss how it felt to perform in the aftermath of tragedy. But as a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, an intercultural chamber orchestra formed by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, she's not at all hesitant ...
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SilkRoad Ensemble set for UNCW's Kenan Auditorium / StarNewsOnline
Posted At : March 22, 2019 12:00 AM
Seven-members from the The Grammy-winning Silkroad Ensemble from Boston founded by the famed cellist travels between the music of Europe and the East on March 27 at UNCW's Kenan Auditorium. It is the essence of romantic adventure. Caravans crossing thousands of miles of high desert, sometimes within sight of heaven-stretched mountains, following the headwaters of great rivers, skirting China's Great Wall...
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Kayhan Kalhour set to headline 'International Music Festival' / San Antonio Magazine Q&A
Posted At : March 20, 2019 12:00 AM
Kayhan Kalhour knows life will always involve the mundane-bills, dishes, work-which is why the Grammy Award–nominated musician says music and culture are so crucial. "Some of us will be professional musicians and some will be professional listeners, but music is so important in this world that we live in," says Kalhour, who will perform on Friday, March 22, as part of Musical Bridges Around the Wor...
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Silkroad Ensemble celebrates diversity in Auckland / RADIO 13
Posted At : March 15, 2019 12:00 AM
It was a very fine musical fusion from Silkroad Ensemble at the Auckland Town Hall as part of the Auckland Arts Festival 2019 last Thursday night. Conceived by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma almost twenty years ago to be a musical expression of working together in the face of globalisation, the Ensemble literally embodies diversity. In addition to performing, the group also mentor and train musicians and teachers ...
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Watch Silk Road collaborate
Posted At : March 15, 2019 12:00 AM
Silkroad's mission has always been about creating music that engages difference. How do we celebrate differences among us but not let those differences divide us? How do you co-create, how do you co-collaborate? What does it mean to really hear someone? The idea of radical cultural collaboration...not only are you willing to share, but willing to hear what someone else's deep thoughts about somet...
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Silkroad Ensemble fuses musical culture at QPAC / ArtsHub review
Posted At : March 9, 2019 12:00 AM
Founded 20 years ago by acclaimed cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. Conceived as a means by which musicians from all genres and backgrounds could work together in a productive cultural collaboration, Silkroad Ensemble comprises an ever-evolving group of amazing musicians. Named after the route of the ancient Silk Road, which connected east and west, the vision of the Ensembleisto facilitate an exchange of ide...
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Silk Road joins UD-Korbel School and Newman Center for concert and conversation on the intersection of cultural diplomacy
Posted At : February 8, 2019 12:00 AM
Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998 as a reminder that even as rapid globalization resulted in division, it brought extraordinary possibilities for working together. Seeking to understand this dynamic, he began to learn about the historical Silk Road, recognizing in it a model for productive cultural collaboration, for the exchange of ideas and tradition alongside commerce and innovation. And in a radica...
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Radio New Zealand pre-views Womad 2019
Posted At : November 12, 2018 12:00 AM
Radio New Zealand's Episode 110 pre-views just some of the line-up of international and local musicians who will be appearing at Womad on the 15 – 17th March 2019. The program includes music from Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble, along with an interview with Emere Wano, the Event Director and NZ Program Manager talking about her role in Womad and why the Womad festival always makes for a u...
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WOMADelaide announces 2019 lineup / The Adelaide Review
Posted At : October 18, 2018 12:00 AM
WOMADelaide 2019 lineup announcement is rich with familiar names and new discoveries. Keen WOMAD watchers might have anticipated the announcement of the Grammy-winning, Yo Yo Ma-founded Silk Road Ensemble, who last month were confirmed to headline the Kiwi WOMAD in Taranaki alongside Kidjo and NZ rapper TEEKS (who will also perform at WOMADelaide 2019). They won't be the only Grammy winners on the lineup...
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Cristina Pato Quartet & 'The Music of Strangers' documentary will visit Ohio University campus / The Post
Posted At : September 17, 2018 12:00 AM
An award-winning instrumental group is coming to Ohio University's campus, and to get everyone excited for the performance, a documentary about one of the members will be shown at The Athena Cinema. The Cristina Pato Quartet will visit campus Sept. 24 as part of the Performing Arts and Concert Series. Additionally, a documentary on the Silk Road Ensemble, the group through which Pato first attracted an A...
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Kayhan Kalhor, recipient of 2018 Isaac Stern Human Spirit Award / FINANCIAL TRIBUNE
Posted At : September 1, 2018 12:00 AM
The Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition has announced Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor as one of the recipients of the 2018 Isaac Stern Human Spirit Award. Kalhor, busy practicing for his concerts, could not attend the award ceremony on Saturday in Shanghai. However, event and conductor Michael Stern, son of Isaac Stern, received the award on his behalf, Honaronline reporte...
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Melbourne Festival returns this October with its most enthralling program yet / beat
Posted At : July 26, 2018 12:00 AM
The Melbourne International Arts Festival will decorate Victoria's capital with a host of entrancing theatre, music, dance and art showcases this October, the festival tonight announcing the expansive 2018 program set to take over the city. Highlights include an exclusive set from revered Berlin composer Nils Frahm as well as Silkroad Ensemble from the US, performing their dance opera, Layla and Manjun. ...
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Wu Man stops by the NPR studios to discuss the history of the pipa
Posted At : May 5, 2018 12:00 AM
Wu Man is recognized as the world's greatest virtuoso on an instrument that is over 2000 years old: the Chinese pipa. Throughout her career, she's brought the pear-shaped, 24-fret instrument into the 21st century by collaborating with world class orchestras like the New York Philharmonic and groups like the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble. "Jump out the box - I always wan...
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Yo-Yo Ma brings along a few friends from around the globe for Florida State's 'Opening Nights' / Tallahassee Democrat
Posted At : April 12, 2018 12:00 AM
The last time world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, center, was at Opening Nights for a solo show, he played the Bach Cello Suites so beautifully they sounded the way Bach probably heard them in his head when they were written. This time around, when he returns to Opening Nights on Tuesday night at Florida State University's Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Ma is bringing along a few friends from around the globe...
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Holy Cross students become 'guest percussionists' of the Silkroad ensemble / Worcester Telegram
Posted At : February 19, 2018 12:00 AM
They may not have known it as they walked in and took their seats in Room 481 at O'Kane Hall before the start of the class, but 30 College of the Holy Cross students would become an unofficial percussion orchestra by the time the session's 75 minutes were up. Actually, you could have called the student percussionists "guest" members of the Silkroad Ensemble, the New York-based musical collective that was...
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Yo-Yo Ma hands over artistic direction of Silkroad
Posted At : October 24, 2017 12:00 AM
A letter from Yo-Yo Ma, Dear Friends, Silkroad turns twenty next year. Like a teenager approaching adulthood, we are exploring our purpose in the world. For us, this means thinking about how to share what we have learned to build a more hopeful future. One thing we have discovered is the joy and significance of working as an ensemble, and at this turning point, we are formalizing a new appr...
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Behind the music in 'Vietnam War' documentary / IdeaStream: Cleveland
Posted At : September 11, 2017 12:00 AM
Music can help express emotions that aren't so easily put to words, and songs from of the Vietnam War era continue to help people identify with feelings from that time period. Songs like John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" and the Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" helped filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick with "The Vietnam War," a series which premieres on PBS WVIZ on Sunday. "There are 120 reco...
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Silk Road Ensemble provides open workshop at Ft. Collins - Music District / Rocky Mountain Collegian
Posted At : June 22, 2017 12:00 AM
Members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble provided an open workshop at The Music District in Fort Collins on Tuesday. The musicians were cellist Mike Block, percussionist Shane Shanahan and flutist Kaoru Watanabe. The workshop was part of the Silk Road Ensemble's circuit in Colorado. The circuit began Monday at New Belgium with a screening of Yo-Yo Ma's documentary "The Music of Strangers" and...
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Silk Road Ensemble. A fitting finale for Abu Dhabi Festival / The National
Posted At : April 2, 2017 12:00 AM
"Falling in love is one of the few human rights that no one can take away," says clarinettist Kinan Azmeh from the stage at Emirates Palace, dedicating the Silk Road Ensemble's final piece to his fellow Syrians who have "managed to fall in love in the past six years". With that, the 13 musicians launch into Wedding, a joyous group extrapolation of the traditional folk melodies one might still hear at a v...
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Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble set for Abu Dhabi Festival / The National
Posted At : March 26, 2017 12:00 AM
If you thought becoming a rocket scientist was hard, try being a percussion soloist. It is something American musician Joseph Gramely entertained for a hot five minutes in his youth, until he realised demand for percussion soloists wasn't exactly high. "Right now in the world, there may be less than you can name on one hand," he says. But, perhaps, fate did him a favour. Instead of forging a path on ...
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The Knights - Azul set for release / WQXR
Posted At : March 20, 2017 12:00 AM
Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov's cello concerto Azul was first commissioned for Yo-Yo Ma by the Boston Symphony, and received its premiere in 2006. Now, over 10 years later, Azul is seeing its first studio release. It's the centerpiece of Brooklyn-based orchestral collective The Knights' project of the same name, set to be released on March 31. Colin Jacobsen, who leads The Knights alongside ...
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The Music of Strangers. Lush cinematography and music / DECIDER
Posted At : March 12, 2017 12:00 AM
World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma says "I'm always trying to figure out at some level who I am and how I fit in the world, which is something I think I share with 7 billion other people." That search for both self-identity and global commonality lies at the heart of the film - The Music of Strangers. Released in 2015, The Music of Strangers was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Music Film category, ...
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The Silk Road Ensemble on DAILY KOS
Posted At : March 12, 2017 12:00 AM
Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who chose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful dialogue in an open forum. The diarist gets to sleep in if she wants to, and she can show up long after the post published. That is a feature, not a bug. Other than that, site rulz rule. Join us, plea...
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Music of Strangers on HBO / Heavy.com
Posted At : March 6, 2017 12:00 AM
In 2000, Yo-Yo Ma formed the Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the globe. Tonight's HBO special, "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble", is a film that follows the musicians as they travel the world, perform, and tell their story. Watch HBO tonight MON. MARCH 6. Featured in the photo are - Silk Road Strings Director Robert McDonald, Silk Road Projec...
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'Music of Strangers' provides some remedy to global isolationism / ComicsVerse
Posted At : March 5, 2017 12:00 AM
There have been plenty of reflections here at ComicsVerse and in other pop culture-focused publications about the significance of art during the current turbulence of the global political climate. Nationalism has seen a surge in popularity and many countries in the world are closing its doors to turn inward instead of reaching out to support their neighbors in the global village. It seems like a moment o...
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Driving Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble / Forbes
Posted At : March 4, 2017 12:00 AM
If you'd been standing at the southern entrance to Grand Central Terminal this past Tuesday morning at just the right time, you might have noticed a green-haired Galician bagpiper marching through a crowd of onlookers, her instrument's notes soaring toward the rafters as she ascended a makeshift stage to perform alongside a Syrian clarinetist and an assortment of additional musicians. The group in qu...
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Home is where the Silk Road Ensemble is / WQXR Radio
Posted At : March 3, 2017 12:00 AM
Yo-Yo Ma founded Silkroad in 1998 as an organization dedicated to the virtues of multiculturalism and the exchange of musical and artistic ideas. A musical collective with the same mission, the Silk Road Ensemble, soon followed. It was named after the ancient trading route that facilitated the exchange of goods between places as geographically distant as Luoyang and Rome. It's fitting, then...
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SRE's Kinan Azmeh and Christina Pato discuss 'Music of Strangers' on WUSB: The Sounds of Film / LongIsland.com
Posted At : March 2, 2017 12:00 AM
Members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Kinan Azmeh and Christina Pato, will be Tom Needham's guests this Thursday on the Sounds of Film on WUSB. They will be talking about their HBO film Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville. The film tells the story of an extraordinary group of musicians from around the world who have been c...
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