1. Tina Guo was born on 28 October 1985 and is a Chinese-born American cellist and erhuist from San Diego.
22 Facts About Tina Guo
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Tina Guo has appeared as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony the National Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in Greece, the Petrobras Symphony in Brazil, and the Vancouver Island Symphony in British Columbia.
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Tina Guo performed with violinist Midori Goto in Dvorak's American String Quartet at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and completed four national tours of Mexico and Italy performing the Shostakovich, Dvorak, Haydn, and Saint-Saens Cello Concertos.
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Tina Guo toured as a featured guest with Al Di Meola, Yoshiki of X Japan, and recently appeared with the Tenerife Symphony and Choir in the Canary Islands performing "Batman: The Dark Knight" Suite at the Tenerife International Film Festival, featured on Electric Cello.
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Tina Guo was born in Shanghai, China to father Lu-Yan Guo, a concert cellist, and mother Fei-Fei Soong, a concert violinist, who are the current artistic directors of the California International Music and Art Festival, an annual event held in San Diego, California.
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Tina Guo performed alongside Johnny Marr of the Smiths and Hans Zimmer at the Premiere of Inception, and in a sold-out concert for DreamWorks with Hans Zimmer and John Powell, featuring her as soloist on electric cello and erhu.
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Tina Guo was featured on the Electric Cello in a super-band for the event with The Crystal Method, Wes Borland, Danny Lohner, Joe Letz, and the Hollywood Scoring Orchestra.
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Tina Guo has been a featured performer at Comic Con, BlizzCon, and with Video Games Live.
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In 2015, Tina Guo was featured with video game music band Critical Hit, performing at most of the Wizard World Comic Cons.
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Tina Guo featured in Baroque rock group Vivaldianno's "City of Mirrors" Tour which appeared in arenas throughout Europe in June 2015.
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Tina Guo performed at the Sundance Film Festival, the Playboy Mansion, and has shared the stage with The Tenors, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Josh Groban, John Legend, LeAnn Rimes, Chris Isaak, Il Divo, Ariana Grande, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Jennifer Hudson, and Michael McDonald.
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Tina Guo has toured with blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa as part of a diverse all acoustic backup band, and Hans Zimmer.
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Tina Guo is featured on screen in commercials for Mazda6, and United Airlines, and was a featured soloist in Cirque Du Soleil's Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour from 2011 to 2013 performing in sold-out arenas around the world.
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Tina Guo performed to 2 million audience members worldwide with the tour, and they topped the charts for 2 years as the highest-grossing tour in America and sold-out shows in arenas worldwide.
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Tina Guo was the cello soloist on the scores of Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Red Riding Hood, Abduction, Olympus Has Fallen, Escape Plan, CSI: NY, Vikings, The Borgias, Sleepy Hollow, Iron Chef America, Blizzard's Diablo III, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Revelation Online 2015 by Chinese game giant Netease, and Journey, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
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Tina Guo contributed Electric Cello to the creation of elements that were used by Sound Designer Scott Martin Gershin in the creation of the Kaijus in Pacific Rim.
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Tina Guo's arrangement and performance of "The Flight of the Bumble-Bee" was featured in the end credits for The Heartbreak Kid and she was an additional composer on the feature film Persecuted.
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Tina Guo is featured on the cello in an instrumental set piece for the 100th episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
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Tina Guo is notable as the soloist on electric cello creating the theme for Wonder Woman in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Hans Zimmer, which she reprised in the Wonder Woman standalone film with Rupert Gregson-Williams as well as its 2020 sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, with Zimmer .
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Tina Guo was a featured guest on Kamelot's thirteenth studio album, The Awakening.
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Tina Guo's first published work as an author is "Event Horizons of Yin and Yang", a collection of philosophical prose and poetry.
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Tina Guo was married to Ray Armando Morabito, an electronic music producer.