Yu Long conducted the premiere of a concerto for this instrument paired with a double timpani concerto by Philip Glass. Eric Whitacre wrote his The River Cam for a player of this instrument named Julian Lloyd Webber. Players are instructed to switch to bass drum and flexatone before returning to this instrument in Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticle of the Sun. A movement titled "Aniri" opens a 2009 pansori-inspired concerto for this instrument by (*) Unsuk Chin. Concertos for this instrument were collected on the 2018 album Inspiration by Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Elliott Carter's concerto for this instrument was commissioned for a player of this instrument who, with violinist Itzhak Perlman, performed Air and Simple Gifts at Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration. For 10 points, name this low-pitched string instrument played by Yo-Yo Ma. ■END■
ANSWER: cello [or violincello]
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