Born in Bombay Patricia Rozario studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music with Walther Gruner and Jeffrey Talbot, winning the Gold Medal and the Maggie Teyte Prize. Several of the world’s leading composers have written for her, most notably Arvo Pärt and Sir John Tavener.
She has sung with Solti, Ashkenazy, Jurowski, Belohlavek, Gardiner, Pinnock, Harding and Andrew Davis; she has sung opera at Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Lyon, Lille, Bremen, Antwerp, ENO, Glyndebourne Touring, Opera North, and concerts in USA, Canada, Russia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic and at all the major UK venues, including eight appearances at the BBC Proms.
Opera appearances include Zerlina Don Giovanni at Aix-en-Provence, Servilia La clemenza di Tito in Lyon, Gluck Iphigenie in Aulide in Stuttgart and Vivaldi Catone in Utica with Jean-Claude Malgoire in France.
Recently Patricia has sung Tavener’s Cantus Mysticus at the BBC Proms, Pärt's L'abbé Agathon , Mahler’s 4th Symphony , the US premiere of Tavener’s Solemnitas in Conceptione Immaculata Mariae Virginis in New York, the UK premiere of songs from Ahmed Essayad’s Voix Interdites with London Sinfonietta, Errolyn Wallen’s Faultline and recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the Salisbury, City of London and West Cork Chamber Music Festivals.
Highlights this season include recitals at Temple Song, the City of London Festival, and a return to the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. This year will also see the release of a new CD of Pärt’s Face to Face and Tavener’s Epistle of Love on Louth Sounds.
Patricia Rozario was awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours, 2001 and the Asian Women’s Award for achievement in the Arts, 2002.
