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Cristina Pato (born August 17, 1980) is a bagpiper, pianist and composer.
The first female Galician bagpiper to record a solo album in Spain, she has released four albums as a solo bagpiper and two as a pianist. Pato has collaborated with artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Arturo O'Farrill, The Chieftains, Paquito D'Rivera, The World Orchestra, Damian Woetzel, Lil Buck, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Osvaldo Golijov and in more than twenty recordings as a guest artist.
Pato is Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University where she studied with a fellowship from Fundación Barrié de la Maza. She was awarded the Edna Mason Scholarship and the Irene Alm Memorial Prize for excellence in scholarly research and performance (Rutgers University, May 2008). She holds both a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and a Master of Music Degree in Music Theory and Chamber Music (with honours) from the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Digital Arts (Computer Music) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
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Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born Chinese Americancellist. Born in Paris, he spent his schooling years in New York City and was a child prodigy, performing from the age of five. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and has enjoyed a prolific career as both a soloist performing with orchestras around the world and a recording artist. His 90+ albums have received 18 Grammy Awards.
In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, he has recorded a wide variety of folk music such as American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music. He also collaborated with Grammy Award-winning jazz/reggae singer Bobby McFerrin. During the Dixie Chicks' controversial tour of 2005-6, Ma backed them playing cello as sideman, assisting in the string arrangements for the band.
The bagpipes typically conjure images of rotund, bearded men in kilts playing traditional Scottish songs. Yet Cristina Pato, the sensational bagpiper from Galicia (the Celtic region of northern Spain), shatters that stereotype. Watch Pato bring that unique sound of Galicia to the Soundcheck studio with a performance of "Muiñeira for Cristina." Hear the entire session and interview: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/jun/17/cristina-pato-in-studio/
After nearly a decade spent living in the city, Cristina Pato is a full-fledged New Yorker. But her first home is the place where Spain meets the Celtic world: Galicia. Pato's instrument is the gaita, a Galician bagpipe, and her roots lie in traditional Galician music — though she also boasts graduate degrees in classical piano, music theory and electronic composition. And if you happen to think that bagpipes automatically equal St. Patrick's Day parades or Austin Powers movies, Pato would like to disabuse you of those notions: The only green she sported on the day of her Tiny Desk Concert was on the punkishly tipped ends of her hair. Pato sets her musical vantage points far from tradition, aided by her thoroughly simpatico collaborators in this trio: accordionist and composer Victor Pri...
Cristina Pato and The Migrations Band performs "Muiñeira for Cristina" LIVE from NJ. "Muiñeira for Cristina" is a composition by accordionist and composer Victor Prieto, and is part of Cristina Pato's new album MIGRATIONS, Sunnyside Records 2013 The Migrations Band consists of: Victor Prieto, accordion. Eric Doob, drums, John Hadfield, percussion. Edward Perez, double bass. Video directed and edited by Andres Rosende. Thanks to Bruce J. Sherman and the Hudson Performing Atrium Series at Lincoln Harbor, NJ. Cristina Pato is an Opus 3 Artist for North America More info: www.cristinapato.com
From the album Songs of Joy and Peace Cristina Pato, Yo Yo Ma. Songs of Joy and Peace
Led by 2015 guest conductor, Maestro Andrew Grams, the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra will close the concert with a special world premier performance of "Elas", Mvt III from Widows of the Living and of the Dead, by Octavio Vazquez. Our 2015 guest artist is Galician Bagpiper and member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Cristina Pato.
Galician bagpipe star Cristina Pato shares with the audience her personal and artistic story, the sense of permanent discovery, the quest for her true artistic element and a sense of endless possiblities. Plus, she delights the audience with some amazing music. Roberto Comesaña plays the Accordeon. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain...
For more information about the Silk Road Ensemble and Silkroad, visit http://silkroadproject.org This first reading of "My Lethe Story" by Cristina Pato was shared as a new work in progress during a Silk Road Ensemble residency at Harvard University in December 2013. Silkroad commissioned the piece as part of an ongoing multidisciplinary exploration of rivers. "My Lethe Story" addresses a loved one's memory loss through the metaphor of the River of Forgetfulness.
Cristina Pato performing a work by Osvaldo Golijov with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Lincoln Center New York City, June 9 2009.