The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood Music Festival

Synopsis

Founded in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Project is an internationally minded nonprofit arts, cultural and educational organization that promotes innovation and learning through the arts. Its vision is to connect the world’s neighbourhoods by bringing together artists and audiences around the globe. The Silk Road Ensemble is a collective of musicians, composers and performing artists from more than 20 countries around the world. 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 recorded five albums and performed to critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and North America. The concert presented here took place at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts, in June 2012. Concert: 105' // Documentary: 95'

Additional Info

• No: 9104
• Composer: Cristina Pato, Kojiro Umezaki, Wu Tong, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Giovanni Sollima, Sandeep Das, Sapo Perapaskero
• Artists: Jeffrey Beecher, contrabass, Nicholas Cords, viola, Sandeep Das, tabla, Jonathan Gandelsman, violin, Joseph Gramley, percussion, Colin Jacobsen, violin, Eric Jacobsen, cello, Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh, Dong-Won Kim, jang-go, vocals, Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Cristina Pato, gaita, Shane Shanahan, percussion Mark Suter, percussion, Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi, Wu Man, pipa, Wu Tong, sheng, bawu
• Production year: 2012
• Run time: 01:45:00
• Director: Morgan Neville
• Producers: BFMI in co-production with Sony Classical
• Format: HDTV 16:9