Cristina Pato Lorenzo (born August 17, 1980) is a Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer.
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.
[2] 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)[3] 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.