Yo-Yo Ma won a a best Chamber Music Performance gramophone award in 1986 for Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor Op. 38 and F Op. 99 (RCA 17022) by Brahms.
Mr. Ma made his BBC Proms debut on the 30th of August 1978 in a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
He was born in Paris in 1955, but graduated from The Juilliard School.