2012 Polar Music Prize (2) | Nobel Prize Net

2012 Polar Music Prize (2)

Reason for Award

"...Yo-Yo Ma has dedicated his virtuosity and his heart to journeys of musical exploration and discovery around the world."

Laureates

Yo-Yo Ma

United States of America

Other works in the same year

"...Nobody else is more deserving of the epithet of "world-class songwriter." For five decades, Paul Simon has built bridges not only over troubled waters but over entire oceans by (re)joining the world's continents with his music."

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