Yong Ma is Principal Flute at the China National Opera, newly appointed Professor of Flute at the Shanghai Conservatory, and has been hailed by the New York Concert Review as a player of “astonishing brilliance.” 

Mr. Ma began studying flute at the age of eight in China and later became a student of Yongxin Wang at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1996, Mr. Ma came to the United States and later earned both his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Carol Wincenc and Robert Langevin. 

Before his current role at the China National Opera, he served as Principal Flute in the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, and the Juilliard Orchestra.