Patricia Rozario was born in Bombay and graduated from London's Guildhall of Music with Walther Grüner, winning the School's Gold Medal and the Maggie Teyte Prize.

She went on to a multi-prize winner and Gold Medalist. This was followed by several prizes at international singing competitions. Since then her career has developed in opera, concert work, recording and broadcasting.

She has sung with Solti, Ashkenazy and Gardiner, given performances at Wexford, Aix, Glyndebourne Touring and Opera North and sung recitals in France, Germany and London's Wigmore Hall. Her wide concert and opera repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary, including Monteverdi's Il Combattimento at English National Opera and Tavener's Apocalypse and "We shall see Him as he is" at the BBC Proms.

Rozario's recordings include "Songs of the Auvergne" with Pritchard, Hadn's Stabat Mater under Pinnock, The Rape of Lucretia with Hickox, Casken's Golem a Gramophone Award-winner and Tavener's Mary of Egypt.

She recorded Tavener's Akhmatova Songs with Steven Isserlis for BMG. Recent engagements have included Bach's St John Passion with Malgoire, Britten's Les Illuminations with Daniel Harding and Handel's Atalanta in Halle.

Her discography includes major works by Britten, Canteloube, Casken, Händel, Haydn, Respighi, Satie, Tavener and Vaughan Williams. Her achivement is, she was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours list 2001 for her services to music.