Sound Postings is Yo-Yo Ma’s creative team, collaborating with a wide range of partners to manage Yo-Yo’s professional and philanthropic activities and to create, develop, and produce artistic projects that advocate for a world guided by humanity, trust, and understanding.
From 2018 until 2023, Sound Postings led the production of the Bach Project, a 36-community, six-continent tour of Bach’s cello suites paired with local programming exploring culture’s role in imagining and building a better world. Most recently, Sound Postings has partnered with Yo-Yo to conceive and produce Our Common Nature, a cultural journey to celebrate the ways that nature can reunite us in pursuit of a shared future.
Executive Director
Jonathan has 25 years of experience advising companies, foundations, and nonprofits on strategy and operations, including seven years in McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office, where he was a senior member of the philanthropy practice. He has written and spoken on issues of social innovation, and was a lead author of “And the Winner Is … : Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes”, McKinsey’s report on the creative role of prize-based philanthropy. Between two stints at McKinsey, Jonathan served as a Policy Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada. Jonathan studied history at the University of Toronto and journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax before entering Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received a D.Phil. in international relations.
Deputy Director
Ben has held leadership positions in communications and strategy at international cultural organizations including Silkroad, the global arts organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma, and the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank focused on Indian society, where he also contributed to “Cities of Delhi,” a qualitative study of informal settlements in the city. He began his career as a radio journalist, collaborating with Christopher Lydon to produce programs on arts, ideas, and politics for public radio. Ben studied literature at Brown University.
Creative Producer
Sophie has produced projects in theater, dance, music, and craft, including guiding more than 150 collaborations between Yo-Yo and cultural partners around the world. Before coming to Sound Postings, she worked at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), managing its dance partnership with the US Department of State. She has a special interest in West African performance, and began her career working with dancers and musicians in Bamako, Mali. Sophie studied theater arts at Brown University and arts of Asia and Africa at SOAS University of London.
