When one thinks of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, one likely pictures a soloist surrounded by accompanying string players in a full orchestra, with classical music wafting toward the audience. However, ...

Rhiannon Gidden is a musical polymath. As someone who started out studying opera vocals, she’s best known for her skills as a formidable banjo player (an instrument she came to at the late age of 24).

Many of the chamber music concerts that are part of La Jolla SummerFest, in La Jolla, Calif., are held in a small auditorium in La Jolla's Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. But the scale was much ...

The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma are performing on Sunday, August 21, at the Hollywood Bowl as part of KCRW’s long-running World Festival series. I’m definitely going. In fact, I’ll be hosting the ...

Mr. Morris’s staging of the Azerbaijani opera about star-crossed lovers arrives in New York. “It’s not about sex,” he says. “It’s about infinity.” By Marina Harss Musicians from around the world, ...

The name of The Silk Road Ensemble comes from the collection of trade routes that, for 2,000 years, branched across Europe, Asia and Africa. This physical connection had implications far beyond the ...

The classic Azerbaijani love story, “Layla and Majnun,” will take the Power Center stage on Oct. 13-15. Promising to be a huge, unique production, the show features two Azerbaijani solo singers, two ...

LENOX -- A night with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble is like a visit to a popular resort in a far-off land. The milieu is exotic but there are enough reminders of home to make the place seem familiar ...

Jazz news: Lincoln Center Presents Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, June 5-9. Posted in “Performance / Tour” column. Published: April 19, 2009 @ All About Jazz ...

"Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon" Sony Classical The new recording by the Silk Road Ensemble differs from its 2002 predecessor, "When Strangers Meet," in several ways. For starters, "Beyond the ...

Of all the unpredictable directions Yo-Yo Ma’s career has taken, the Silk Road Project looked like the most potentially important one. Now, seven years into the project, it could be the most popular.