![]() ![]() While his albums include all the classical cello repertoire - Bach, Beethoven, Barber, Britten, Dvorák, Elgar, Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Shostakovich and Vivaldi - he has also performed and recorded American folk and bluegrass, Argentine tangos, music from Brazil, a pop album, and Japanese and traditional Chinese song melodies. The group also publishes books and documentaries and runs extensive educational initiatives. ![]() Twenty-four years ago, he founded the Silkroad Ensemble (now under the leadership Rhiannon Giddens), a nonprofit organization that brings vastly disparate people together to share music, art and ideas. Modest, self-effacing, generous, broad-minded and supremely gifted, he has devoted his life to improving the world - not just by playing his cello, but by bringing the world together.
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