Patricia Auchterlonie is a singer, performer, and maker looking to explore all that is playful/colourful/unexpected. She is fascinated with the human voice and with textile media, especially the possibile intertwinings of sound and thread. Current obsessions include english folk music, slow handicraft, and troubadour music. She is interested in the gradual fermentation of making processes and in risky comaking* - that is to say, creating new collaborative work that allows for vulnerability and experimentation.
Recent projects include a new large-scale work, Garland, by Oliver Leith for Bold Tendencies 2025, a performance of a new work by Leoni King with the Britten Sinfonia, hcmf// 2024 with her textile-improvisation project, Loomeweight I and Beat Furrer's new opera Der grosse Feuer at Zurich Opera House where she was creating the role of Lucia II.
Patricia frequently works as a creator of new operatic roles and was recently seen at RBO in 2025/2026 for the revival of Oliver Leith & Matt Copson's critically acclaimed Last Days. Other operatic roles have included Child in The Devil's Den by Isabella Gellis (Shadwell Opera/Nevil Holt Festival), Hannah Arendt in Amor Mundi by Matt Rogers (Cambridge Refugee Week), Where the Wild Things Are by Oliver Knussen (Bamberger Symphoniker/ Shadwell Opera), Violet by Tom Coult (cover - Music Theatre Wales/ Britten Pears Arts), Lei in Passion by Pascal Dusapin (cover - Music Theatre Wales), and Kes'Cha'Au in RUNE by Alastair White (Tête-a-Tête, released by Métier Records). She has participated in research and development on numerous new projects, including works by by Colin Matthews, Philip Venebles, and Richard Baker.
Patricia's practice encompasses a wide variety of collaboration and devising. She is currently developing the second chapter of Loomeweight with Hestor Dart, an ongoing series of projects that explore the meeting point of textile and voice. She has commissioned a programme of new works for voice and saxophone with David Zucchi for performance in 2026/2027 She also recently collaborated on a new theatre work with the Haunted Network Research Initiative called Snartlegog which was performed at Temple of Art and Music and developed a ballet with artist Sarah Kate Wilson and dancer Maria Isidora.
Patricia has performed with the LA Phil, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Music Festival, Snape Maltings, Cantando Admont, Wiener Festwoche, Konzerthaus Dortmund, IMPULS Festival, Colourscape, eavesdropping festival, at starptelpa festival in Riga, and at Cafe Oto, as well as recorded for NMC, Mètier Records and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She was also a participant in the inaugural cohort of the 2023-24 VOICEBOX programme, delivered by Juliet Fraser in partnership with Britten Pears Arts; City, University of London; Sound Festival and Dartington Music Summer School.
Patricia was the 2017/18 Carne Junior Fellow at Trinity Laban. She holds a master’s degree with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto with honours. In her spare time, she's an avid reader, a seamstress, a gardener, an indomitable knitter, and a shameless lover of the banjo (which she plays with enthusiasm rather than skill).
*"risky co-making" comes from Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble