Interview with Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma, Exec. Dir., Children's Orchestra Society (full version)

In this exclusive interview conducted by Peiwen Wang in New York City, Dr. Yeou-Cheng Ma shares inspiring and often very humorous stories from her childhood in Paris and then New York, and her days as a student at Harvard University. She also shares practical advice--drawn from her own experience studying piano and violin--for young musicians trying to develop and perfect their art.

Dr. Ma is an accomplished violinist and pianist, having studied with her father, H.T. Ma. Dr. Ma is the sister of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and has accompanied him on piano and violin since their days as childhood prodigies performing on television for President John F. Kennedy and the conductor Leonard Bernstein.

A practicing pediatrician educated at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ma is currently Executive Director of the Children's Orchestra Society, a non-profit organization devoted to providing musical education to young students. Founded by her father, the Society celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019. Dr. Ma's decades-long work for the Society was profiled in The New York Times in May 2019.

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