Cristina Pato

Category: Piper and pianist
Birth Date: In 1980
Birth Place: Ourense
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 Curriculum

She graduated in Music at the Music Conservatoire of Barcelona, specialising in Piano (1999), in Music Theory, Transport and Accompaniment (2001) and in Chamber Music (2003).
.Master in Digital Arts (Music and Composition), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (2003).
.Doctor of Musical Arts, DMA (“Collaborative Piano”), Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University (USA). She enjoyed a scholarship of Barrié de la Maza Foundation. She has an active professional life devoted to Galician popular music all around Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Mexico.
She has collaborated in international tours with The Chieftains, Hevia, Vargas Blues Band, ‘Real Banda de Gaitas’, Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia and Symphonic Orchestra of Tenerife.
She combines all this activity with her concerts of classic piano in prestigious halls such as the Festival Litsz in Río de Janeiro (Brazil), Casa Elizalde in Barcelona and ‘Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Galicia’.
She has carried out over three hundred concerts, many of them recorded and broadcasted on the BBC, CNN and Spanish TV.

 Work & Activities

DISCOGRAPHY:
1990-1997: “Gallaecia”, “Ano Santo”, “Adelita” and “Solistas da Real Banda” (with the ‘Real Banda de Gaitas’).
1997: “Has bailar!”, Mutenrohi Zouma Records.
1998: “Mutenrohi CNR”, Arcade (this record was nominated to the Music Prizes organized by the Society of Writers and Editors).
1999: “Cousas da Lúa”, Mutenrohi CNR, Arcade (this record was nominated to the Music Prizes organized by the Society of Writers and Editors); “Naciones Celtas II” (compilation), Fonofolk-Fonomusic and “Tolemia” Cristina Pato. Fonofolk-Fonomusic.
2000: “Naciones Celtas III” (compilation). Fonofolk-Fonomusic.
2001: “Xilento” Cristina Pato. Fonofolk-Fonomusic. Warner, East-West (this record was nominated to the Music Prizes organized by the Society of Writers and Editors).
2002: “Ansiedad” (DVD). Electroacustic Project.
2003: “Cantigas do mar”, ‘Real Banda de Gaitas de la Diputación de Ourense’, Spanish TV.
2004: “Gran Rapsodia de Aires Populares”, ‘Real Banda de Gaitas de la Diputación de Ourense’, Spanish TV.
2005: “RH: Hybris”, Incidental music for Monomono Teatro.