A life devoted to fostering diversity and inclusion in music and to preserving and promoting underrepresented repertoires.

Recognized as the voice of the Iberian and Latin American art song and often described as its ambassador, the soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo is one of the leading interpreters and researchers of this repertoire.

She is an avid performer of these works, having performed around the world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the study of the history & performance of Latin American and Iberian art song.

Patricia is a true artist-scholar who combines research and performance, enriching each other. She has recorded eleven CDs with art songs in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Indigenous languages. Most of her recordings include works recorded for the first time or works composed for her to premiere. Two of her CDs are exclusively dedicated to the music of women composers.

In 2020 she returned to composition, which she did when she was a teenager. Her compositions are in a crossover Latin American and Spanish style, combining elements of the region's various folk and popular musics. In her compositions Patricia integrates her life's many musical influences, navigating between the worlds of art and folk song.

Patricia has dedicated many years to researching the Latin American and Iberian art song repertoire, bringing to light numerous composers and works that were previously hidden. Her interdisciplinary research seeks to contextualize the works and composers, studying them as a part of complex and entangled social networks.

Patricia has published eleven books considered a reference in the area. Her books included editions of scores and monographs. The scores are available at www.mundoarts.com 

Her monograph The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, is the go-to book on its subject. Her numerous academic articles can be found on her Academia profile.

Patricia Caicedo often visits universities and conservatories around the World as a guest artist and teacher. Some of the institutions she has visited include the University of North Caroline School of the Arts, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California Riverside, the University of South Florida, Wake Forest University, Brigham Young University, New Mexico State University, University of Indianapolis, Loyola University, Texas Christian University, the University of Texas Rio Grande, University of Texas Dallas, Brigham Young University, Keene College, Florida State University, University of Delaware, Saint Olaf College, the University of California Irvine, the Smithsonian Institution, and the International Development Bank, among many others.

Caicedo is the founder and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song®, a 10-day Summer Course and performance series on the history and interpretation of the Latin American and Spanish Vocal repertoire. The BFOS arrives in 2023 to its 19th edition. 

Her interest in exploring the possibilities of technology brought her to create Mundo Arts. This company has a music publishing house, a record label, and an online store as business units. Patricia has developed numerous international projects incorporating second-generation Internet, streaming, and interactivity. She is the creator of EYECatalunya, an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to promoting Catalan creators internationally.

Patricia has served as a cultural ambassador for the Governments of Colombia and Spain. In 2021 the Colombian Embassy in Spain awarded Patricia as one of the ten outstanding Colombians in Spain. In 2017 Patricia was named an Honorary Member of the Brazilian Voice Teachers Association and their Europe representative. Since 2008 Patricia has been included in the Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in the World, a leading biographical reference publisher of the highest achievers from across the World. 

Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor's degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. In 2020 and 2021, Patricia was on the Board of the International Music Council, a UNESCO partner organization.