Patricia de Mayo
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Born and educated in Munich, Germany, Patricia moved to Great Britain at the age of seventeen, where she studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She then spent some years as a session player, touring Europe and Japan as well as performing with her own group, Mean Time. She also studied Theatre and voice production (Dorothea Alexander), and contemporary Dance. She worked with the dance company Lorent Ballet, and in the late nineties became a Flamenco dancer, performing in Theatres around Britain, Scotland and Ireland. During that time she also worked as a bass player for the group Aires Flamencos. 
 

In 2004 she began studying  at University and completed a degree in Arabic and Arabic Cultures at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), followed by a Master degree in Arabic music. with emphasis on learning to play  the Arabic Lute. She has been  performing a repertoire of music from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, including songs in Spanish, Arabic, Yiddish, German, French and English.

She has also been teaching piano, German and English and sometimes works as a voice over artist.
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