Born in Dryden Ontario, the daughter of a pulp and paper
engineer and a school teacher, Patricia's childhood was a
blur of small towns: Smooth Rock Falls, Sioux Lookout and
Iroquois Falls. The only constant was music. By age five 
she had won a music festival in Smooth Rock Falls by charming 
the judges with her rendition of "I had a Little Nut Tree".
Most of the time, however, she had no one to study with.
"In all these small towns there were never any singing
teachers," she says. "So I started studying piano and singing
on my own." Back then her goals were somewhat wide-ranging.
When not dreaming of a future life as a nun - yes, a nun - 
Patricia joined a band and fantasized about life as a rock
star. In between hours of prayer she belted out tunes by Ozzy
Osbourne and the Rolling Stones. But in her heartshe knew
that neither the convent nor the rock band were quite right.
She needed a mentor. "When I was 16 I found a teacher, Rosanne
Simunovic an hour away in Timmins and I finally started studying
music classically." It was a revelation.A year later she had
moved to Mexico on a student exchange program and while there
she decided to become an opera singer. In typical fashion
Patricia went home and threw herself into it with abandon.
She went on to the University of Toronto where she completed her
four-year study of music performance, all the while taking
advantage of Toronto's diverse musical offerings. She went to
countless rock concerts, sang as a soloist in a choir and
began performing at bars with a friend accompanying her on
piano. Patricia quickly established herself on the music
scene. She co-founded an avant-guarde music ensemble called
Zebra Schvungk which went on to win firt prize in the Fourth
International Young Artist Music Competition in Dusseldorf,
Germany. She began to do regular performances at the Banff
Summer Arts Festival, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and 
the Toronto Classical Singers. In 1999 Patricia stunned
Canadian audiences with her performance as The Singer in Ken
Finkleman's acclaimed television series "Foolish Heart". In 
1996 Patricia won a Chalmers grant and she used the money
to help record her first independent CD called Youkali.
In 1997 she signed with Marquis Classics. Her next record,
Slow Fox, was an elegant gem, again featuring the songs of
Leonard Cohen and Kurt Weill as well as artists like
Arnold Shoengerg. It won critical acclaim around the world
and Patricia began to establih herself as one of today's
premiere singers of cabaret music. With the international release
of her most recent album "Real Emotional Girl" the future
for her looks exciting.