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Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas. The project was first inspired by the cultural traditions of the historical ...
Ma formed his own collective, the Silk Road Ensemble, named after the route across Asia which for more than 2,000 years was used for trade between Europe and China. His goal was to bring together musicians from diverse countries that were historically linked via the Silk Road. [32] The ensemble's recordings are issued on the Sony Classical ...
Joseph Gramley is an American multi- percussionist, teacher and composer, and a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble. As a solo performer he each year commissions and premieres new works from such emerging composers as Kojiro Umezaki and Justin Messina. His first solo recording, American Deconstruction, featuring performances of five ...
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Kayhan Kalhor (Persian: کیهان کلهر, [2][3] born on 24 November 1964) is an Iranian kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer. [4][5] He has received three Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album nominations. [6] Kalhor also has earned two nominations and won one Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album as a member of ...
Block plays with the Silk Road Ensemble. [7] Block has served as musical director for Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lil' Buck Sinegal, Bill Irwin, Marcus Printup, The Silk Road Ensemble, and The Knights. Block is the leader of the Mike Block Trio alongside Joe K. Walsh mandolin/vocals and Zachariah Hickman bass/vocals.
Gabriela Lena Frank is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble under the direction of cellist Yo Yo Ma. Her composition Ritmos Anchinos appears on the Silk Road Ensemble's album Off the Map (World Village & In a Circle Records, 2009). "Off the Map" was nominated for a 2011 Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album.
The Silk Road Project and its performance unit, the Silk Road Ensemble, was established by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998 to explore the rich cultural traditions of the Silk Road - the historic trade route that connected the peoples and traditions of Asia with those of Europe. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture was a founding partner of the Project, and through ...