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PATRICIA ROZARIO

Soprano

"I found myself totally caught up in the experience, so much so that the sixty minutes fairly flew. Much of that was because of Rozario's magnificent singing. Long an exponent of Tavener's vocal works, Rozario, in her Ravinia debut, brought a wide range, radiant timbre, phenomenal dexterity and pitch, superb German diction and total expressive conviction to the cycle."
- Chicago Tribune

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, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Estonia, Czech Republic and at all the major UK venues, including seven appearances at the BBC Proms.

Premiere performances include Arvo Pärt Como Anhela la Cierva, Howard Blake Stabat Mater, Roxanna Panufnik Beastly Tales; and Tavener Life Eternal, Ikon of Eros, Veil of the Temple, Lament for Jerusalem and Schuon Lieder.

Opera appearances include Ilia Idomeneo (Glyndebourne), Zerlina Don Giovanni (Aix-en-Provence), Servilia La clemenza di Tito (Lyon), Gluck Iphigenie in Aulide (Stuttgart), Handel Atalanta and Almira (Bremen), and Vivaldi Catone in Utica (with Jean-Claude Malgoire). She created the roles of Belisa in Simon Holt The Nightingale's to Blame (Opera North) and Stephen McNeff Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe (Dartington and London), among others.

Recent highlights include Tavener's Cantus Mysticus (London Sinfonietta) at the BBC Proms, Pärt's L'abbé Agathon (Danish National Symphony Orchestra), Mahler's 4th Symphony (Northern Sinfonia), 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 (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), and recitals at the Wigmore Hall and the Salisbury, City of London and West Cork Chamber Music Festivals.

This season, Patricia has sung Casken's Farness with Northern Sinfonia, Shostakovich's Romanzen at Vienna's Ehrbar Saal, and performed at the Bath and Drogheda Arts festivals. May 2009 also saw the release of two new recordings: Knaifel's O Heavenly King and Górecki's Good Night on debut label Louth Sounds, and Spanish songs for soprano and guitar with Craig Ogden on Somm Records. Future plans include recitals at Leicester International Music Festival and the Temple Song Festival, and a major USA tour of a new work by Roxana Panufnik with Chanticleer.

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.

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