CMC Directors

Mark Troop, pianist, broadcaster and writer, is the founder of The Chamber Music Company; a group devoted to creative performance of all types of music.

Mark Troop with cellist Matthew Barley 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 Troop & CMC created The Twilight of the Iguana, 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 (three times), Spain (twice) 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. The festival ran again in 2007 and expanded in 2008 and 2009 to include linked tours of South Africa.

Future events include a third Latin American Roadshow, a new interactive festival – The Far East Roadshow – inaugurated in November 09 with a special Chinese concert Inspired By China in autumn 2009, his cabaret show I’m a Stranger Here Myself currently touring Germany since being on the Edinburgh Fringe.

In development: Jean-Henri Blumen’s The Dream Peddler; China’s greatest love story – Sacrifice; Film Angel – a Shanghai Cabaret on the life of Zhou Xuan, a CD of solo piano music to celebrate the Chopin bicentenery (release date: spring 2012), a CD of erhu (Chinese fiddle) & piano music (release date: spring 2012).

With singer, Frances Lynch Mark creates and performs interactive children’s drama concerts as part of their group Big Mouth Piano Tales

Mark Troop taught at the Guildhall School of Music for two decades, at Dartington International Summer School for fifteen years and currently is at St Paul’s Boys’ School. As a writer he has been published in Musical Opinion, Piano and Musical Performance. With his wife, Patricia Rozario, he runs the new Indian vocal project, Giving Voice to India, which sets up western music projects, especially vocal, in the subcontinent.

Patricia Rozario was born in Bombay. She graduated from London’s Guildhall School of Music a multi-prizewinner and Gold Medalist. Her wide concert and opera repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary. She has sung with many of the world’s foremost opera companies and Festivals, including regular appearances at the Proms. She has had many works written specially for her by leading composers including Arvo Pärt and Sir John Tavener.

Recent performances include the UK première of songs from Ahmed Essayad’s Voix Interdites with London Sinfonietta, Tavener’s Cantus Mysticus with London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms, To a Child Dancing in the Wind and Melina at Temenos, Errolyn Wallen’s Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, the première of a one-woman opera Don’t Go Down the Elephant written for Patricia by Andrew Gant, and recitals at the City of London, Salisbury and West Cork Chamber Music festivals and at the Wigmore Hall.

Recently Patricia has sung Casken’s Farness with Northern Sinfonia, performed at Vienna’s Ehrbar Saal, and at the Bath and Drogheda Arts festivals. May 2009 also saw the release of two new recordings: Knaifel’s O Heavenly King and Górecki’s Good Night on Louth Sounds, and Spanish songs for soprano and guitar with Craig Ogden on Somm Records. Recent work includes recitals at Leicester International Music Festival, the Temple Song Festival, and a major USA tour of a new work by Roxana Panufnik with Chanticleer.

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. With her husband Mark Troop she has set up and runs the outstanding new vocal project in India, Giving Voice to India, where regular project work is developing Indian vocal talent with a view to establishing Indian choirs and opera singers of the future. Patricia is Professor of Voice at London’s Royal College of Music.