Editing Yo-Yo Ma (section)

==Notable performances==
[[File:yoyoma rice.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|right|Ma with [[Condoleezza Rice]] after performing a duet at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards]] On July 5, 1986, Ma performed in the [[New York Philharmonic]]'s tribute to the 100th anniversary of the [[Statue of Liberty]], which was televised live on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Television]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-07-05-8602090161-story.html|title=LIBERTY RECEIVES CLASSICAL SALUTE|author=Bill Kelley|website=Sun-Sentinel.com|date=July 5, 1986 |access-date=June 20, 2020}}</ref> The orchestra, with conductor [[Zubin Mehta]], performed in [[Central Park]].

Ma performed a duet with [[Condoleezza Rice]] at the presentation of the 2001 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards. He was the first performer on September 11, 2002, at the [[World Trade Center site|site of the World Trade Center]], while the first of the [[Casualties of the September 11 attacks|names of the dead]] were read on the first anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks|attack on the WTC]]; he played the [[Sarabande]] from Bach's [[Cello Suites (Bach)#Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011|Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Whiting |first=Jim |date=2008 |title=Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/yoyomabiography00whit |url-access=registration |quote=yo yo ma 9/11 first anniversary 2002. |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/yoyomabiography00whit/page/147 147] |isbn=978-0-313-34486-2}}</ref> He performed a special arrangement of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s "[[Fragile (Sting song)|Fragile]]" with Sting and the [[Mormon Tabernacle Choir]] in the opening ceremonies of the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in [[Salt Lake City]], Utah. He also appeared as a ''Pennington Great Performers'' series artist with the [[Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra]] in 2005.

He performed [[John Williams]]'s ''[[Air and Simple Gifts]]'' at the [[first inauguration of Barack Obama]] on January 20, 2009, along with [[Itzhak Perlman]] (violin), [[Gabriela Montero]] (piano), and [[Anthony McGill (musician)|Anthony McGill]] (clarinet). While the quartet played live, the music, played simultaneously over speakers and on television, was a recording made two days prior due to concerns over the cold weather damaging the instruments. Ma said, "A broken string was not an option. It was wicked cold."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7846472.stm – Quartet pre-recorded Obama music]. [[BBC News]] (January 23, 2009). Retrieved on July 1, 2011.</ref>

On May 3, 2009, Ma performed the world premiere of [[Bruce Adolphe]]'s "Self Comes to Mind" for solo cello and two percussionists with John Ferrari and Ayano Kataoka at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in New York City. The work is based on a poetic description written for the composer of the evolution of brain into mind by neuroscientist [[Antonio Damasio]]. A film of brain scans provided by [[Hanna Damasio]], and other images, were coordinated with the performance.

[[File:Yo-Yo Ma - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008.jpg|thumb|Ma appearing at the [[World Economic Forum]]'s annual meeting in 2008]]
On August 29, 2009, Ma performed at the funeral mass for [[Ted Kennedy|Senator Edward M. Kennedy]]. Pieces he performed included the Sarabande movement from [[Bach]]'s [[Cello Suites (Bach)#Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012|Cello Suite No. 6 in D major]] and [[César Franck|Franck]]'s "[[Panis angelicus]]" with [[Plácido Domingo]].<ref>[http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/20607537/detail.html Kennedy Funeral Includes Family, Music, President] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901173250/http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/20607537/detail.html |date=September 1, 2009 }}. Thebostonchannel.com (August 28, 2009). Retrieved on July 1, 2011.</ref>

On October 3, 2009, Ma appeared with Canadian prime minister [[Stephen Harper]] at the National Arts Centre gala in Ottawa. Harper, a fan of [[The Beatles]], played the piano and sang a rendition of "[[With a Little Help from My Friends]]" while Ma accompanied him on cello. On October 16, 2011, Ma performed at the memorial of [[Steve Jobs]] at Stanford University's [[Stanford Memorial Church|Memorial Church]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/17/steve-jobs%E2%80%99s-family-gave-moving-words-at-sunday-memorial/ | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Jessica E. | last=Vascellaro | title=Steve Jobs's Family Gave Moving Words at Sunday Memorial | date=October 17, 2011 | url-status=dead | access-date=August 4, 2017 | archive-date=April 10, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410022201/https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/17/steve-jobs%E2%80%99s-family-gave-moving-words-at-sunday-memorial/ }}</ref>

In 2011, Ma performed with American dancer [[Lil Buck|Charles "Lil Buck" Riley]] in the United States and in China at the U.S.-China Forum on the Arts and Culture.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CJB-14683 |title = Watch Yo Yo Ma and Lil' Buck Perform 'The Swan' in Beijing |newspaper = [[The Wall Street Journal]] |last = Chin|first = Josh |date = November 21, 2011 |access-date = December 7, 2021}}</ref>

On April 18, 2013, he performed at an interfaith service to honor the victims of the [[Boston Marathon bombing]], held at the [[Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Boston)|Cathedral of the Holy Cross]], where he played the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite No. 5. He and other musicians also accompanied members of the [[Boston Children's Chorus]] in a hymn.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.wqxr.org/blogs/wqxr-blog/2013/apr/18/watch-cellist-yo-yo-ma-performs-boston-memorial-service/ | title = Watch: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Performs at Boston Memorial Service | publisher = WQXR | last = Wise | first = Brian | date = April 18, 2013 | access-date = April 18, 2013 | archive-date = July 8, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130708085648/http://www.wqxr.org/blogs/wqxr-blog/2013/apr/18/watch-cellist-yo-yo-ma-performs-boston-memorial-service/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

On September 9, 2015, Ma performed all six of Bach's cello suites at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] (London) as part of the [[BBC Proms]] season.

On September 12, 2017, Ma performed all six of Bach's cello suites at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] (Los Angeles). After the first three suites, there was a "ten-minute pause" (as the Bowl video screen described it). The audience of around 17,000 also heard him play an encore, a tribute to "cellist Pablo Casals, who as a 13-year-old in 1890 discovered an old copy of the Bach suites in a secondhand music store, bringing them to modern attention. Ma's memorable last words were, "If there are any 13-year-here—don't throw anything away."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-yo-yo-ma-bowl-review-20170914-story/ | title = Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl |newspaper = The Los Angeles Times |last = Swed|first = Mark |date = September 13, 2017 |access-date = September 14, 2017}} {{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On November 11, 2018, Ma performed at the [[Arc de Triomphe]] in Paris, with violinist [[Renaud Capuçon]], in front of a crowd of world leaders during a ceremony marking the [[Centenary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918|centenary]] of the armistice that ended World War I.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2018-11-12|title=Yo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capuçon mark Armistice with Ravel|url=https://www.thestrad.com/news/yo-yo-ma-and-renaud-capucon-mark-armistice-with-ravel/8350.article|access-date=2022-01-27|website=The Strad|language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Strings by Starlight.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|Ma's performance at [[Paranal Observatory]], home of the [[Very Large Telescope]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Strings by Starlight |url=https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1920a/ |website=Eso.org |access-date=December 7, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>]]
On May 1, 2019, he performed at [[Paranal Observatory]] in the [[Atacama desert]]. He said that his interest in [[astronomy]] motivated him to visit and perform there.

On June 20, 2019, Ma performed Bach's Cello Suites at [[Jay Pritzker Pavilion]] in Chicago, Illinois. The free performance attracted what might have been his largest audience, with a pavilion capacity of 11,000, and many thousands more listening from surrounding [[Millennium Park]].

On January 20, 2021, Ma's performance of "[[Amazing Grace]]"—pre-recorded due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]—was played during the [[inauguration of Joe Biden]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWZwuK8D4Js |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/vWZwuK8D4Js| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Yo-Yo Ma Amazing Grace Presidential Inauguration 2021|date=January 26, 2021 |publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/us-inauguration-yo-yo-ma-drops-by-inauguration-day-special-performs-stunning-rendition-of-amazing-grace-twitter-erupts/PNW3W2O7RYYAIXHVZQYVQE77YA/|title=US Inauguration: Yo Yo Ma drops by Inauguration Day special, performs stunning rendition of Amazing Grace, Twitter erupts|website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=July 19, 2023 }}</ref> In March 2021, Ma played "[[Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)|Ave Maria]]" in an impromptu waiting room concert, after receiving his second dose of a [[COVID-19 vaccine]] at [[Berkshire Community College]] in Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-56401138|title=World-famous cellist's impromptu vaccine centre concert|work=[[BBC News]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/mar/14/yo-yo-ma-plays-cello-vaccine-waiting-room-massachusetts-video|title=Yo-Yo Ma plays cello in vaccine waiting room in Massachusetts – video|date=March 14, 2021|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref>

On September 14, 2021, Ma again performed Bach's six cello suites at the [[Hollywood Bowl]], this time without intermission, pausing only briefly for applause between suites, and to announce his dedications for two of them.

On December 7, 2024, on the [[Reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris|Reopening of Notre-Dame]] in Paris, Ma performed the prelude of the First Cello Suite from Bach.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.classicfm.com/artists/yo-yo-ma/bach-prelude-notre-dame/ |title=Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's beautiful prelude in newly renovated Notre Dame cathedral|work=Classical FM}}</ref>