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The latest Beethoven for Three release is out now, featuring Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and Leonore Overture No. 3 with my friends Emanuel Ax and @lkavakos, joined this time by @antoine_tamestit on viola! Link in bio.
@sonymasterworks
#classicalmusic #cello #beethoven
28 Aug 2026
Dear Friends and Fellow Humans,
I turn 70 today. For 7 decades I’ve had the privilege of living out my childhood dream, which was simply to UNDERSTAND. After spending more than half a century meeting people from all over the world willing to tell me their stories, I have found meaning, purpose and hope through advocating for their voices with music. I am deeply grateful to them all.
But today, I am worried. In the year 2100, my youngest grandchild will be 76. She will be meeting a world I will not see. I wonder what the world will be like then? And what can we all do now to ensure that today’s children can live with hope, purpose and meaning?
I try to remember that WE ARE NATURE. Embedded within nature, and in us, are the seeds of incredible creativity and terrifying destructiveness. My deepest birthday wish is that all of us humans become constantly aware of these opposing forces within us, and that we actively choose to create rather than destroy. Only then can we be free to imagine, invent and construct a new way of living together. Only then can we live in equilibrium with one another and with our planet, include all the wisdom of the ages, allow awe and wonder to be a part of our lives, and most of all, treat every human being with dignity:
a PLANETARY HUMANISM.
With love & affection,
Yo-Yo
07 Oct 2025
Bach has been the music of my life.
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Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3
#classicalmusic #cello #bach
20 Oct 2026
The Snow Lion is making its way across the East Coast.
We are delighted to share that A Song for the Snow Lion has been officially selected for DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in U.S, joining our East Coast festival journey with selections at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and Boston GlobeDocs Film Festival.
From the high mountains of Bhutan to Telluride, and now to audiences in the Hamptons, Woodstock, Boston and New York, we are deeply grateful to see this story continue its journey.
A Song for the Snow Lion is a story about music, nature, and the interconnectedness of all things, and about what we stand to lose if we forget that connection.
We look forward to sharing the Snow Lion’s song with you.
A SONG FOR THE SNOW LION
Hamptons International Film Festival: October 11th 10:45 AM
Woodstock Film Festival: October 17th 2:00 PM
Boston GlobeDocs Film Festival: October 25th 11:00 AM
DOC NYC: November 14th 2:15 PM
#yoyoma #asongforthesnowlion #docnyc #docnyc2026
08 Oct 2026
Watch our Lord of the Rings halftime show, featuring renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and in collaboration with Howard Shore! 🎼
To watch the full show, click the link in our bio. 🔗
#UMichBand #UMich #GoBlue #LOTR #YoYoMa
28 Sep 2026
Fire up, it’s Saturday! 🔥
#UMichBand #UMich #GoBlue
25 Sep 2026
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” —Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Excerpt from “All Living Beings” by @maxrichtermusic, Film by Yulia Mahr
25 Sep 2026
We had to call in some help for Eroica. The latest Beethoven for Three album (+ @antoine_tamestit) is out now! Link in bio.
#classicalmusic #viola # #beethoven @lkavakos #emanuelax
16 Sep 2026
གནམ་མེད་ས་མེད་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།
(Telluride, we offer you our gratitude, gratitude that goes beyond the sky and beyond the earth)
Photos: @thetelluridelens
#asongforthesnowlion
08 Sep 2026
Yo-Yo Ma @yoyoma :
“Like music, water travels lightly, it knows no borders.”
“I hope A Song for the Snow Lion offers a bit of hope, a celebration of our ability to create song and story, awe and wonder that bind us together in love and responsibility when words and facts fail.”
Pawo Choyning Dorji @pawo :
“We are not only losing ice, we are losing the stories that ice gave us, and with them the way of seeing the world those stories carried.”
“A Bhutanese child does not learn to protect the mountain by being shown a chart with numbers. She learns it because she is told a snow lion lives up there.”
#asongforthesnowlion
04 Sep 2026
Today, A Song for the Snow Lion @asongforthesnowlion begins its journey into the world. We are honored to share that our film will have its World Premiere at the legendary Telluride Film Festival.
The film began with a Bhutanese folktale carried through generations: wherever glaciers endure, snow lions are said to roam, mythical guardians with fur as white as snow and manes as blue as the morning sky. Such stories have taught the Bhutanese to regard glaciers and mountains not simply as landscapes, but as sacred, living worlds worthy of reverence and protection. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Bhutan remains home to the last unclimbed mountain peaks on Earth.
What began as a folktale became an extraordinary journey with Yo-Yo Ma into Lunana, one of the most remote communities on Earth. There, among disappearing glaciers, we reflected on something much larger: our relationship with nature, with one another, and the truth that no life exists independently of another.
A Song for the Snow Lion is a film about interdependence, and what we stand to lose when we forget that we belong to the natural world.
The recent devastating flash floods in Nepal remind us that the melting of the Himalayan glaciers is not a distant warning. It is happening now. The Himalayas are speaking to us, and what happens in these mountains will not remain in these mountains.
To everyone who walked with us, climbed with us, and believed in this film, carrying it from Bhutan to the world… Kadrinche la. Our gratitude goes beyond the sky and the earth.
Featuring: Yo-Yo Ma @yoyoma , Kelden Lhamo @kelden_lhamo
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji @pawo
Producers: Ben Mandelkern, Charlie Clark @charlienyc , Ryan Booth @ryanbooth , Austin Mann @austinmann & Sophie Shackleton @sophieshackleton
EPs: Geralyn Dreyfous, Vijay Vaidyanathan, Nina & David Fialkow, Melony & Adam Lewis, Regina K. Scully, Una Jackman, Jay Alix & Jannet Chow @jennetchow
DOPs: Jigme Tenzing @jigmetenzing , Sherab Dorji @sherab___dorji & Kelsang Dorjee @kelzangdorjeesolly
Color: Tom Poole @tomopoole
Sound: Chiang Yi-Chen @xiao_p_xoxo
#asongforthesnowlion
03 Sep 2026
Compose yourself! Yo-Yo Ma is presenting. #JeopardyMasters
25 Aug 2026
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