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Ma's career "has always been marked by his everlasting search for new ways to communicate with the audience and his ambition for artistic growth and renewal," the committee said in its citation.
Ma's goals is the exploration of music as a means of communication, and as a vehicle for the migration of ideas, across a range of cultures throughout the world.
Ma established the Silk Road Project to promote the study of the cultural, artistic and intellectual traditions along the ancient trade route that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.