World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will join the Colorado Symphony under the stars at Red Rocks Amphitheatre June 3, the symphony announced Tuesday. 

The evening will begin with a “vibrant, all-American–inflected repertoire” performed by the Colorado Symphony and will close with “Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104,” featuring Yo‑Yo Ma as a soloist.

The American cellist will join the Colorado Symphony again June 5 at Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs.

Ma, a 19-time Grammy Award winner, has more than 120 albums to his name, as well as the National Medal of the Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Kennedy Center Honors.

“Our Common Nature,” Ma’s podcast, is the cellist’s most recent project. Ma “travels around the United States to make music and meet people who have deep connections to the earth,” according to the podcast’s description. A companion EP was released in October.

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” hosted Ma to promote “Our Common Nature” last week.

This summer’s concerts are Ma’s first with the Colorado Symphony since his 2024 performance of “Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85” at Boettcher Concert Hall.

Both shows will feature John Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine,” William Grant Still’s “Poem for Orchestra,” and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” before Yo-Yo Ma comes out on stage for the “Dvořák Cello Concerto.”

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Jan. 23. Prices have not yet been announced.