Cristina Pato
Cristina Pato (* 1980 in Ourense ) is a Spanish gaita player and pianist.
Pato studied on a scholarship from the Fundacion Barrie de la Maza at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University , where she received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. She also received Masters degrees for piano performance and for music theory and chamber music at the Conservatorio de Musica del Liceu in Barcelona and for computer music at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra . Rutgers University awarded her the Irene Alm Memorial Prize in 2008 .
With her own band she gave more than five hundred concerts and performed a. a. in the Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center , in the Indian Kamani Auditorium , the Jerusalem Festival , the Festa do Avante in Portugal, the Liszt Festival in Brazil, the UK, France, Italy, Mexico and Spain. She premiered works such as From Air to Air and Rose of the Winds by Osvaldo Golijov , Norte von Montserrat Torras and - as a pianist - the piano concerto by Octavio Vazquez . She also composed and produced the soundtrack for the Spanish film El Hombre de Arena .
Pato worked with representatives of world music , jazz , classical and experimental music, including u. a. Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble , The Chieftains or the Royal Pipe Band , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia . In 1998 she released her first solo album as a Gaita player, the first solo album by a woman with this instrument. In addition to three other albums with Gaita, she also released two albums with Pato as the pianist, and she also worked on more than thirty albums by 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 Cedron's string quartet, Carlos Beceiro , Laura Amado , David G. Outumuro , Xan Padron and Raquel Pato )
- Migrations , 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.)
Web links
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- The Silk Road Project - Cristina Pato
- NME - Cristina Pato
- World Music Central: Cristina Pato - The Galician Connection
- Discography at Allmusic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pato, Cristina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish gaita player and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ourense |