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Born in Bombay, PATRICIA ROZARIO studied at London's Guildhall School of Music, winning the Gold Medal and the Maggie Teyte Prize. 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, who alone has now written over thirty works for her, making their collaboration unique in the contemporary field. She has sung with Solti, Ashkenazy, Jurowski, Belohlavek, Gardiner, Pinnock and Andrew Davis, sung opera and given concerts in major venues all over the world. Her wide concert and opera repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. She has given the premier performances of many pieces written especially for her, most recently John Casken's Farness and Chansons de Verlaine at the Wigmore Hall, and Jonathan Dove's setting of Vikram Seth, Minterne, with Steven Isserlis and Philippe Honoré. She has so far appeared eight times at the BBC Proms. 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.

JOANNE D'MELLO recently completed the Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, London, studying with Patricia Rozario, OBE. She has a degree in Microbiology and studied singing and the violin in Goa, before taking up full-time music studies at the Royal College of Music in London. Joanne has participated in Masterclasses with Jutta Vulpius, Sarah Walker, Graham Johnson, Yvonne Minton, Ian Patridge and Jill Feldman. She has performed in concerts at various major venues around London, Holywell Music Hall (Oxford), Tomar (Portugal), Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Goa. Last December she was invited to do solo recitals in India with Japanese pianist Kumi Matsuo. In 2009, she was invited to perform at the Monte Music Festival in Goa by Fundação Oriente and did a series of concerts with the Goa String Orchestra. Currently she is based at the Flanders Operastudio in Ghent, Belgium.

SUSANNA HURRELL was born in London to a musical family and joined the undergraduate programme at the Royal College of Music in 2005. After graduating with first class honours she gained a place to study with Patricia Rozario at the RCM International Opera School. During her time at college she won the English Song competition and second prize in the LOieder competition, and took part in many acclaimed performances such as Bruckner's Te Deum with Bernard Haitink and Mozart's C Minor Mass with Sir Charles Mackerras. Susanna has already embarked upon a varied solo career. On the operatic stage her roles include Dido in Dido and Aeneas, the Maid in The Crocodile, Papagena in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Euridice in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, Rodelinda in Handel's Rodelinda, Rossanne in Handel's Alessandro, and Amariili in Handel's Il Pastor Fido.

MARK TROOP, pianist, broadcaster and writer, is the founder of The Chamber Music Company, a group devoted to creative performances of all types of music. With cellist Matthew Barley he founded the CMC Summer Solstice, bringing together Classical and Jazz in a unique set up, creating "The Ronnie Scotts of Classical Music" (The Guardian). For BBC Radio 3, Mark Troup and CMC created a special three-part Latin American series relating the history and literature of Latin America to its music. Mark Troop has set up several British Council tours, to India, Spain, and Latin America, including concerts and educational work. Mark Troop has created two new London-based events: the CMC Rare Music Series, which explores neglected Classical repertory, and The Latin American Roadshow, a new multi-arts festival dedicated to the culture of Latin America. In spring 2006 he inaugurated his new Second Glance Festival in London, bringing four concerts of selected new music to a wider audience. Mark Troop taught at the Guildhall School of Music for two decades, and still teaches at Dartington International Summer School and St Paul's Boys' School. As a writer, he has been published in *Musical Opinion*, *Piano* and *Musical Performance*.