Born in Bombay, Patricia Rozario studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music with Walther Gruner, winning the Gold Medal and the Maggie Teyte Prize, and later with Jeffrey Talbot. Since then her career has developed in opera, concert work, recording and broadcasting. Her unique voice and artistry has inspired several of the world’s leading composers to write for her, most notably Arvo Pärt and Sir John Tavener. In recent years John Casken, Simon Holt, Howard Skempton, Roxanna Panufnik, Howard Blake, Andrew Gant, Indian Naresh Sohal, American David Maddox and Canadian Christos Hatzis have all written works especially for her. Sir John Tavener alone has now written over thirty works for her, making the collaboration unique in the contemporary field. She has sung with Solti, Ashkenazy, Jurowski, Belohlavek, Gardiner, Pinnock and Andrew Davis, sung opera at Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Lyon, Lille, Bremen, Antwerp, Wexford, The English National Opera, Glyndebourne Touring and Opera North and concerts in USA, Canada, Russia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Estonia, Czech Republic and at all the major UK venues. Her wide concert and opera repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. She has given the premiere performances of many pieces written especially for her including Arvo Pärt\'s Como Anhela la Cierva (1998), for soprano and orchestra; Howard Blake’s Stabat Mater; (2001); an orchestral song cycle Beastly Tales (2001) by Roxanna Panufnik for the City of London Festival, broadcast on BBC Radio 3; and Life Eternal (2002), Ikon of Eros (2003) for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Veil of the Temple (2003) in London’s Temple Church repeated at the Lincoln Center in New York and in Amsterdam, Lament for Jerusalem (2003) in Australia and Schuon Lieder (2004) at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, all by Sir John Tavener. On the opera stage she has created the roles of Belisa in Opera North’s production of The Nightingale’s to Blame (1998) by Simon Holt; a one-woman opera Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe (2001) written specially for her by Stephen McNeff and performed at Dartington and London, repeated in May 2002 at Battersea Arts Centre’s Sharp Intake of Music Festival and at the 2004 Cheltenham International Festival; Errolyn Wallen’s opera Another America: Earth (2002) at the Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House, revived in 2005, followed by Another America: Fire (2005) premiered at Sadler’s Wells. Other operatic appearance include Ilia Idomeneo for Glyndebourne, Zerlina Don Giovanni at Aix-en-Provence, Servilia La Clemenza di Tito in Lyon, Pamina The Magic Flute, Belinda Dido and Aeneas and Countess Le Comte Ory for Kent Opera, Gluck’s Iphigenie in Aulide in Stuttgart, Handel’s Atalanta, Handel\'s Almira in Bremen, and Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica with Jean-Claude Malgoire in France. Other notable concert appearances include a series of Tavener\'s works at the Athens Megaron; Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davis; Tippett\'s A Child of Our Time in Stockholm; Britten’s Les Illuminations with Daniel Harding, and at the Prague and Cheltenham Festivals; Finzi’s Dies Natalis for BBC Ulster; Gorecki\'s Third Symphony in Athens; several performances at the London Tavener Festival at London\'s Royal Festival Hall; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle in Holland; a new ballet Laila at Sadler’s Wells; concerts for Soundstreams in Canada including a premiere by Christos Hatzis; and Arvo Pärt’s Como Anhela la Cierva with Vladimir Jurowski in Paris at the Festival de Saint-Denis, Moscow (Russian premiere) and Gothenburg; She has appeared seven times at the BBC Proms including performances of Pärt’s Como Anhela la Cierva and Tavener\'s The Apocalypse. Performances in 2006 included Como Cierva Sedienta by Arvo Pärt in Saarbrucken, Ikon of Eros by John Tavener for Spanish Radio & TV in Madrid, chamber music at the West Cork Festival, the Oistrakh Festival in Estonia, concerts in Finland, Tallin and Thailand, and for the Aldeburgh Festival. This season\'s performances include a premiere of John Casken’s Farness with the Northern Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Zehetmair, a new work Faultline with the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, the World Premiere of a chamber work by Jonathan Dove, and concerts in Canada, Estonia, Italy, India and the UK. Composer Andrew Gant is writing a one-woman opera for Patricia Rozario, to be premiered in 2008. An experienced recitalist, Patricia Rozario regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and performs at all the major venues such as the St John\'s Smith Square, the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wigmore Hall where she will return on September 28th with pianist Julius Drake in a programme that will include the world premiere of Verlaine settings by John Casken. She has just recorded a CD of Strauss songs with pianist Charles Owen due for release early in 2008. Her extensive discography includes Songs of the Auvergne with Pritchard, Haydn\'s Stabat Mater under Pinnock, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Hickox, Casken\'s Golem (a Gramophone award-winner), recordings with Graham Johnson for the Hyperion Schubert Series, and several major works of John Tavener, including Mary of Egypt, the Akhmatova Songs with Steven Isserlis (shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize), To A Child Dancing In The Wind, Eternity’s Sunrise (nominated for the Classical Brit Awards 2000), and Schuon Lieder. 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.