Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a
Galician bagpiper,
pianist
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and
composer. She is a member of the
Silk Road Ensemble
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led by
Yo-Yo Ma
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and an educational adviser to the
Silk Road Project
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. In 2017 she was collaborating with
Harvard University
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as one of its Blodgett Distinguished Artists in Residence. Cristina Pato is a member of the Artist Committee of Americans for the Arts and a regular collaborator of the Turnaround Arts educational program of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Music career
Pato received a master's degree in Piano Performance and a master's degree of in
Music Theory and
Chamber Music from the
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu () is a music college in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was created in 1837 with the name ''Liceo Filo-dramático de Montesión''.
In 1847 the institution inaugurated the opera house Gran Teatre del Lic ...
in Barcelona. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts (Computer Music) from the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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in Barcelona. She earned a doctorate of Musical Arts (Collaborative Piano) from
Rutgers University
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's Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Pato is the first female
Galician gaita
The Galician gaita ( gl, Gaita galega, pt, Gaita galega, es, Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal.
The word is used across northern Spain as a generic term for "bagpipe", although in the south of Spain ...
musician to record a solo album. She appeared on the Grammy Award-winning albums ''Yo-Yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace'' (2008) and ''Sing Me Home'' (2016)
and in the documentary ''The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble,'' directed by academy award winner
Morgan Neville
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''.'' She has also worked with
Arturo O'Farrill,
Paquito D’Rivera,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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, and the
New York Philharmonic
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, as well as dancers
Damian Woetzel and
Lil Buck
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Discography
As leader
* ''Tolemia'' (Fonofolk, 1999)
* ''Xilento'' (Fonofolk, 2001)
* ''From Russia to Brazil'' with Patrice Jegou (Zouma, 2006)
* ''The Galician Connection'' (Zouma, 2010)
* ''Migrations'' (Sunnyside, 2013)
* ''Rustica'' with Davide Salvado, Anxo Pintos, Roberto Comesana (Zouma, 2015)
* ''Latina, Galician Bagpipes & Piano'' (Sunnyside, 2015)
See also
*
Galician traditional music
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References
External links
Official website* James R. Oestreich, September 16, 200
''The New York Times''
* Allan Kozinn, August 21, 200
''The New York Times''
* Cristina Huete, August 31, 200
"La nueva Cristina"''El Pais'' 2009 (in Spanish)
* Lara De Meo July 17, 200
"The many shades of Mason Gross musician Cristina Pato"''Rutgers Focus''
* Vivien Schweitzer, September 19, 200
''The New York Times''
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1980 births
Musicians from Galicia (Spain)
Players of Galician bagpipes
Living people
Spanish women musicians
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century women musicians
21st-century Spanish musicians
21st-century women musicians
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu alumni
Sunnyside Records artists
Castelao Medal recipients
Galician traditional music groups
20th-century Spanish women