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Silkroad (arts organization) 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 ...
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 ...
He studied music at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory, before moving to New York. He performs with a number of musicians and ensembles including Kinan Azmeh, Ron Blake, Petros Klampanis, Nguyên Lê, Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Lenny Pickett, and Kenny Werner.
Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer. She is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble led by Yo-Yo Ma and an educational adviser to the Silk Road Project. In 2017 she was collaborating with Harvard University as one of its Blodgett Distinguished Artists in Residence. [1]
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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 ...
Yo-Yo Ma[a] (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. [1] Born to Chinese [2] parents in Paris, remaining there until age 7, then raised and educated in New York City. He was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half.
Sandeep Das is an Indian tabla player and composer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma for The Silk Road Ensemble - Sing Me Home - won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017. [2]