The Silk Road Project is a not-for-profit artistic, cultural and educational organization with a vision of connecting the world's neighborhoods by bringing together artists and audiences around the globe. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Project in 1998 as a catalyst to promote innovation and learning through the arts. The Silk Road Project takes inspiration from the historical Silk Road trading route as a modern metaphor for multicultural and interdisciplinary exchange ... read full bio

About the Silk Road Ensemble
The Silk Road Ensemble is a collective of musicians and other performing artists from nearly 20 countries around the world. Many of them first came together under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma at a workshop at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts in 2000. In sharing traditions from various cultures, the Ensemble develops and performs new music and multimedia pieces, exploring and expanding contemporary musical crossroads. The Silk Road Ensemble has performed to critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and North America, and has recorded five albums; Off the Map, its most recent, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2011.

About the Silk Road Project
The Silk Road Project is an internationally minded nonprofit arts, cultural  and educational organization founded in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Under his artistic direction, the Project promotes collaboration, innovation and learning through the arts. The Silk Road Project presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads workshops for students, and partners with prominent cultural institutions to create educational programs and materials. Developing new music is a central undertaking of the Project, which has been involved in commissioning and performing nearly 70 new musical and multimedia works from composers and arrangers around the world.

For more information, please visit www.silkroadproject.org.

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