Origin Galicia Name Cristina Pato Instruments bagpipes, piano Role Pianist | Years active 1999 –present Spouse Juan Padron (m. 2002) Website cristinapato.com Education Rutgers University | |
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Born August 17, 1980 (age 43)
Ourense, Galicia, Spain ( 1980-08-17 ) Genres Celtic music, classical Albums The Galician Connection, A Playlist Without Borders, Silk Road Journeys: When Str, Beyond the Horizons, Traditions And Transfor Profiles | ||
L grima rosa cedr n voz y cristina pato piano
Cristina Pato (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper, pianist, and composer. She is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble led by Yo-Yo Ma and an educational adviser to the Silk Road Project. 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.
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Cristina pato live from tvg
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 in Barcelona. She received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts (Computer Music) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She earned a doctorate of Musical Arts (Collaborative Piano) from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Pato is the first female Galician gaita 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. She has also worked with Arturo O'Farrill, Paquito D’Rivera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, as well as dancers Damian Woetzel and Lil Buck. [1]
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