- Enrolled at Juilliard at age 9.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. (February 2011)
- Began playing cello at the age of four.
- Attended Harvard University from 1972-1976
- Recipient of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, along with Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins, and Meryl Streep.
- Named People Magazine's Sexiest Classical Musician 2001.
- Cellist.
- Daughter, Emily, born 1985.
- Son, Nicholas Ma, born 1983.
- He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 2001 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
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