Cristina Pato

Cristina Pato studied at Rutgers University, Pompeu Fabra University and Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. The recorded working language is Galician, English and Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Celtic music and Galician folk music. Distinctions recorded are Castelao Medal and Grammy Awards.

• Name — Cristina Pato • Birth Name — Cristina Pato Lorenzo • Born — 17 August 1980 • Birthplace — Ourense, Galicia, Spain • Genre — * Latin • classical • jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — * Galician gaita • piano • flute • voice • Years Active — 1999–present • Label — Sunnyside • Website — www.cristinapato.com

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. [[Cristina Pato#cite note-Official-1|[1]]] Since 2017, Cristina writes a weekly column titled “The Art of Restlessness” for Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia for which she was awarded the XVII Afundación Journalism Prize: Fernández del Riego. In 2022 she published her debut novel “No día do seu enterro” (“On His Burial Day”) with Editorial Galaxia (Colección Literaria, 2022). And in 2025, her second novel "Fóra de foco" was published also by Editorial Galaxia.

• 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)