Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden's most prolific conductors with over 70 conducted operas and a vast concert repertory. From 1993 he worked as conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. In 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor with the Aalto-Theater in Essen, and also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill Festival 2000.
Until July 2007 Patrik Ringborg was Chief conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where he e.g. conducted premières of The Rhinegold and Elektra.

Subsequently Mr. Ringborg was appointed Music Director with the State Theater in Kassel and chief conductor of the State Orchestra in Kassel - founded in 1502 and thus one of the world's oldest orchestras. He is also the President of the Orchestra Academy of the State Orchestra and the Artistic Director of the "Gustav-Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel, Gustav Mahler).

His engagements as guest conductor include renowned orchestras like the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, RSO Frankfurt, the WDR SO Cologne, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera Stockholm. He also conducted concerts in Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway and Spain.
Since April 2008 Patrik Ringborg conducts a series of opera concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and in May 2008 he made his debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.

Patrik Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera in 1998 with Tannhäuser and was appointed Principal Guest Conductor there in the year 2000. From 1998 to 2006 Mr. Ringborg conducted all Wagner productions at the Gothenburg Opera. Following Lohengrin in the year 2000, he lead the 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. In 2004 a production of Die Walküre followed.

In the same year 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. Spring 2008 Mr. Ringborg returned to conduct a new production of Tosca.
He also was a guest conductor with the Staatsoper Dresden (Nabucco), with the Volksoper in Vienna and with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he returns in this Fall for a revival of Manon Lescaut. In February 2010 follows the debut with 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.