Founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, the Grammy award-winning Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning to build a more hopeful world. Passionate about learning from one another’s traditions, these rooted explorers perform on instruments ranging from world percussion to Western strings, creating a new encounter between the foreign and the familiar that reflects our many-layered contemporary identities.

“One of the most visionary arts initiatives of our time.” — WNPR