“(...) the most unusual solo performance of the evening was by Cristina Pato, a Spanish bagpiper, who played a wailing, trilling, fluidly microtonal line in "Alala" (...) Ms. Pato's sound is unlike any bagpipe playing you've heard: imagine the timbres of an oboe, a metal-ready electric guitar and a screaming trumpet rolled into a single, virtuosic burst of energy"” ---New York Times, Allan Kozinn (August 21,2007)
