Born in Scotland, Patricia graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in Law and French awarded with first class honours, the McCormack prize as the most distinguished graduate of the academic year and a distinction in French language. Subsequently, she trained at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio and continues to study with Anne Mason. She was the 2006 winner of the Alfred Alexander Prize, a finalist in the Royal Overseas League Competition in 2006 and a finalist in the Bruce Millar Competition in 2008. She has been supported by an Independent Opera Voice Fellowship, a Donald Dewar Arts Award, the Newby Trust, the McGlashan Trust, a Sir Richard Stapley award and a Madeline Finden award.
Operatic roles include Laura in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Varvara Kat’a Kabanova for Opera Holland Park, the Sorceress in Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Orimeno in Cavalli Erismena and 2nd Lady Die Zauberflöte for English Touring Opera and Hippolyta A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Garsington Opera. For the RCM, she has sung Enfant L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Bianca The Rape of Lucretia and Prince Orlovsky Die Fledermaus. She also sang the title role in Handel Tolomeo in association with the London Handel Society.
In concert, Patricia has worked with the London Mozart Players, the English Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Quartet in venues such as St John’s Smith Square, the Cadogan Hall, St Martin in the Fields and the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Patricia recently recorded the role of Brangwain The Queen of Cornwall by Rutland Boughton, with the New London Orchestra ( released in 2011).
Recent engagements include Dryad Ariadne auf Naxos for WNO, The Dream of Gerontius with the Bach Choir conducted by Hill, Verdi's Requiem with the Bournemouth Symphony and Hill, a Gala concert with the Royal Philharmonic and Maddelena Rigoletto and Beppe in L'Amico Fritz for Opera Holland Park.
Recent and future plans include Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro, Varvara Kat’a Kabanova and Rosina Il Barbiere di Seviglia all for Welsh National Opera, the title Role Zanetto by Mascagni for Opera Holland Park, and Wardrobe Mistress and Schoolboy Lulu for Welsh National Opera.