Born in Perú in 1982, Patricia started to play the viola aged 11 in Granada, Spain. She completed her viola studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música “Victoria Eugenia” in the same city in 2006, and subsequently began studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London).
Patricia has had the privilege of studying under Donald Lyons, Alejandra Poggio, Asdis Valdimarsdottir, Germán Clavijo (principal viola of the Orquesta Ciudad Granada), Alexander Zemtov and Sven Arne Tepl. She has played with the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía, conducted by Michael Thomas (founder of the Brodsky Quartet), where she had the opportunity to work with conductors Daniel Baremboim and Enrique Mazzola, and toured throughout Scotland, France and Spain. Working with this orchestra encouraged her interest in playing in the Baroque style, alongside studying Musicology at the Universidad de Granada, under the direction of Emilio Ros-Fábregas.
She founded the M. Salinas Quintet, which has had concerts in the Auditorio Manuel de Falla and the Hospital Real (one of the most important buildings of the Spanish Renaissance), performing Pergolesi´s Stabat Mater and Boccherini´s Stabat Mater. She is also co-founder and soloist of the Ensemble Temperamento, the first Baroque youth ensemble in Andalusia, which performed for the first time in Seville in December 2007.
Whilst at Guildhall, Patricia performed under leading conductors including Takuo Yuasa, Christopher Seaman, Stephen Barlow, Paolo Olmi, and Vasily Petrenko. In the period instrument field she has had the opportunity to play with Florilegium, and has founded the Alba duo with the harpsichordist Aniko Sovago.
