Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper,

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

and

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. She is a member of the

Silk Road Ensemble Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and ...

led by

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and an educational adviser to the Silk Road Project. In 2017 she was collaborating with

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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

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and

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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 Li ...

in Barcelona. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts (Computer Music) from the

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in Barcelona. She earned a doctorate of Musical Arts (Collaborative Piano) from

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Mason Gross School of the Arts Mason Gross School of the Arts ("Mason Gross" or "MGSA") is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mason Gross offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in art, design, dance, filmmaking, music, and theater. Ma ...

. Pato is the first female

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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

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''.'' She has also worked with

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, and the

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, as well as dancers

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and

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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)

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'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Pato, Cristina 1980 births Musicians from Galicia (Spain) Players of Galician bagpipes Living people Spanish women musicians 20th-century Spanish musicians 20th-century Spanish women musicians 21st-century Spanish musicians 21st-century Spanish women musicians Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu alumni Sunnyside Records artists Castelao Medal recipients Galician traditional music groups 20th-century Spanish women

Music career

Discography

As leader

See also

References

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