Patrick is a versatile bassoonist who combines work with the UK’s top orchestras with a busy schedule of chamber music and solo engagements.

In demand as a guest principal bassoon, he has performed with the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Northern Sinfonia, English National Opera, and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a soloist, Patrick won second prize at The Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award 2020 in association with Classic FM, and was a finalist at the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition 2022. He made his solo debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2023 with a performance of the Elgar Romance for Bassoon. He has also given solo recitals at the Foundling Museum in London. Patrick has performed at the Brúndibar Arts Festival, Hellensmusic, and is a founding member of the award-winning wind quintet Ensemble Renard. His passion for contemporary music has brought him to work with Octandre Ensemble, Ensemble Musikfabrik, and the London Sinfonietta. Patrick was invited to perform at a memorial for the late Harrison Birtwistle at Plush Manor. In 2025, he gave performances of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XII at the Aldeburgh Festival and at Folkestone New Music.

Patrick is a First-Class music graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, where he was the recipient of the Clifford Smith Prize for Music and an Ensemble ISIS New Music Scholarship. He then took up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Robin O’Neill, Jonathan Davies, Amy Harman, and Simon Estell. Patrick graduated in 2020 with a distinction and was awarded a DipRAM and a Regency Award. He has since held fellowships with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and participated in the London Sinfonietta Academy. In 2023 he returned to the Royal Academy of Music as a Chamber Music Fellow with Ensemble Renard.