From 1993 to 1999 Patrik Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003 he conducted at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, where in 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor and lead over 20 music theatre works including premières like Gounod's Faust, Viva la Mamma, Don Pasquale, Hänsel und Gretel, Der Freischütz, Andrea Chénier and Henze's Orpheus as well as symphony concerts. After Mr. Ringborg's first year in Essen critics named him "Season's best conductor" together with John Fiore and Essen's music director Stefan Soltesz ("Neues Rheinland", August 2000). Patrik Ringborg also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill Festival 2000.
Until the end of last season Patrik Ringborg was Chief conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where he e.g. conducted the opera productions The Rhinegold and Elektra as well as a series of concerts including Mahler's 3rd symphony.

Patrik Ringborg is Music Director at the State Theater in Kassel and chief conductor of the State Orchestra in Kassel, which was founded in 1502 and thus is one of the oldest orchestras in Germany (and indeed in the world). In the 19th century the orchestra was lead by e.g. Louis Spohr and Gustav Mahler, in modern time by conductors like Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht and Adam Fischer.
Patrik Ringborg is also the President of the Orchestra Academy of the State Orchestra and, from next year on, the Artistic Director of the "Gustav-Mahler-Festtage".
In his first season, Patrik Ringborg conducts premières of The Tales of Hoffmann, Falstaff and Peter Grimes as well as a revival of Tristan and Isolde.

Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden's most prolific conductors with over 70 conducted operas and a vast concert repertory. His engagements as guest conductor include German orchestras like the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the RSO Frankfurt, the WDR SO Cologne, the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Munich Symphony and the Bremen State Orchestra. Outside of Germany he has worked in Sweden with orchestras like the Swedish Radio SO, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera Stockholm and the symphony orchestras in Malmö, Helsingborg and Norrköping. He also conducted concerts in Austria, Spain, France, Hungary and Norway.

Patrik Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera in 1998 with Tannhäuser and subsequently conducted all Wagner productions there until 2006. Having been appointed to Principal Guest Conductor leading Lohengrin in the year 2000, he conducted the acclaimed première of Tristan und Isolde in 2003, after which the Orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera was awarded the Opera Prize by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Patrik Ringborg was a nominee for the Opera Prize founded by Tidskriften Opera. In the subsequent season followed a production of Die Walküre.

In 2004 Patrik Ringborg conducted concert performances of Werther with the Staatskapelle Weimar, and two years later he lead a première of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. In this current season Mr. Ringborg returned to Weimar to conduct a new production of Tosca.
He also was a guest conductor at the Staatsoper Dresden (Nabucco), at the Volksoper in Vienna and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he returns in this Fall for a revival of Manon Lescaut. Starting this season Patrik Ringborg conducts a series of opera concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and in May 2008 makes his debut with the RTE Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. In February 2010 follows the debut at the Opera in Cologne with Der Rosenkavalier.

Mr. Ringborg's engagements during the upcoming season include premières of Salome, The Flying Dutchman and Dialogues de Carmélites in Kassel, the revival of Manon Lescaut in Berlin, four Wagner concerts with the Swedish Radio SO in October and the debut with the Gothenburg Symphony in three concerts in November.
Patrik Ringborg also conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2008.