How to watch virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma's first concert in Australia
The importance of cross-cultural connection for a better future: this is the principle that has finally brought virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma to Australian shores.
Over the past year, the maestro who has recorded nearly 100 albums and been awarded 18 Grammys has been performing the same six pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach over and over again.
The project was inspired by Ma’s early experiences of Bach’s music – they were some of the first pieces he learned when he began playing cello at the age of four – and Bach’s “ability to speak to our shared humanity at a time when our civic conversation is so often focused on division”.
