Ma Xinhua

A graduate of Shanghai Conservatory of Music,Yale School of Music and University of Southern California, Ms.Ma has studied with Lin Ying-Rong, Qian Yi- Shan,Wang Que,Aldo Parisot and Eleonore Schoenfeld.

　　In 1988, Ma Xinhua was featured on NBC TV as "A cellist with unlimited future!'. A year later, she was presented with the Key to the State of Ohio and bestowed an honorary citizenship from Ohio. Ms. Ma is the only two-time recipient of the Hammer-Rostropovich Award in 1988 and 1989. In 1997, to celebrate the return of Hong Kong to China, she gave a recital in Hong Kong City Hall as a part of 'the Most Promising Musicians from China' series.

Ms. Ma has given recitals in the USA, Canada, Europe, China, and throughout Asia. She has been the guest soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of New England, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Festival Orchestra , China Philharmonic Orchestra,Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.The Los Angeles Times wrote：“Ms. Ma played Dvorak's concerto with authority and unmistakable sympathy for the composer's music". The San Diego Union wrote: "Cellist Ma Xinhua played with warm, effusive tone and dexterous extended finger technique. She also delivered a passionate and yearning performance, coaxing a beautiful rounded cantabile tone from her instrument." 

She was one of the founding members of the Shanghai String Quartet, with whom she won the second prize in the International String Quartet Competition in Portsmouth, England, in 1985.Ms. Ma has served as the principal cellist of San Diego Symphony Orchestra in the USA.Currently, she is cello professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of music and director of  the cello-bass-harp division there, in addition, she is also the guest principal cellist of China Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.