Cristina Pato

Cristina Pato (* 1980 in Ourense) is a Spanish Gaitaspielerin and pianist.

Pato studied with a grant from the Fundacion Barrie de la Maza at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she obtained the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts. Furthermore, she received Master's degrees for piano performance and music theory and chamber music at the Conservatorio de Musica del Liceu in Barcelona and computer music at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The Rutgers University, she recorded in 2008 with the Irene Alm Memorial Prize from.

With her own band, she was more than five hundred concerts and has appeared at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, in the Indian Kamani Auditorium, at the Jerusalem Festival, the Festa do Avante in Portugal, at the Liszt Festival in Brazil, the UK, France, Italy, Mexico and Spain. She played the world premiere of works such as From Air to Air and Rose of the Winds by Osvaldo Golijov, Norte de Montserrat Torras and - as a pianist - the Piano Concerto by Octavio Vazquez. Furthermore, they composed and produced the soundtrack for the Spanish film El Hombre de Arena.

Pato worked together with representatives of world music, jazz, classical and experimental music, including, inter alia, Yo- Yo Ma Silk Road Ensemble, The Chieftains or the Royal Pipe Band, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia. In 1998, she released her first solo album as Gaitaspielerin, the first solo album by a woman with this instrument. In addition to three other albums with the Gaita also released two albums with Pato as a pianist, she also participated in more than thirty albums of other musicians.

Discography

  • Tolemia, 1999 ( with Javier Abad, Carlos Castro and Adriana Varela )
  • Xilento, 2001
  • Misturados, 2007
  • The Galician Connection, 2010 ( with Rosa Cedron, Mike Oldfield, Victor Prieto, Patrice Jegou, Javier Cedrons String Quartet, Carlos Beceiro, Laura Amado, David G. Outumuro, Xan Padron and Raquel Pato )
  • Migration, 2013 ( Roots and jazz with Victor Prieto, Edward Perez, Eric Doob, Emilio Solla, guest musicians: Edmar Castaneda, Mike Block, John Hadfield, Sandeep Das, Colin Jacobsen, Suso Vaamonde, Roberto Comesaña. )
Pompeu Fabra University Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Castro (journalist)
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