Patrik Ringborg is one of Sweden's most prolific conductors with around 75 conducted operas and a vast concert repertory. From 1993 to 1999 Patrik Ringborg worked as a staff conductor at Freiburg's Opera House, being promoted to Deputy Music Director in 1997. 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 at the Opera House in Freiburg (notable productions being The Rhine Gold and Elektra).

Patrik Ringborg is currently General Music Director at the State Theatre in Kassel and chief conductor of its State Orchestra - founded in 1502, it is one of the world's oldest orchestras. Mr. Ringborg is also President of the Orchestra Academy in Kassel and Artistic Director of the "Gustav-Mahler-Festtage".

He has been engaged as a guest conductor by orchestras such as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the RSO Frankfurt, the WDR SO Cologne, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as all the larger orchestras in Sweden. He also conducted concerts in Austria, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, and Spain.

Patrik Ringborg made his debut at Gothenburg Opera in 1998 with Tannhäuser and subsequently conducted all Wagner productions there until 2006. Having been appointed Principal Guest Conductor and conducting Lohengrin in the year 2000, he conducted the acclaimed première of Tristan und Isolde in 2003 and during the subsequent season he conducted a production of Die Walküre. After a production of Salome in the Fall of 2011 Patrik Ringborg was invited for future productions in Gothenburg.

In 2004 Patrik Ringborg conducted concert performances of Werther at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, being invited to return for a production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 2006. Two years later he returned to Weimar again to conduct a production of Tosca.
He was a guest conductor at the Staatsoper Dresden, at the Volksoper in Vienna and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

At the 2008 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony Maestro Ringborg conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. 2009 the debut with the Gothenburg Symphony followed and in the upcoming season he will return to this Orchestra, Sweden's National Orchestra, conducting among others excerpts from The Twilight of the Gods. In May 2009 he made his debut at the Norwegian National Opera with a première of Elektra and in 2010 his debut at the Opera House in Cologne with Der Rosenkavalier (including Dame Kiri te Kanawa's farewell performances in April) and conducted performances of Elektra with the Stockholm Royal Opera at the Opera Festival in Savonlinna. His Stockholm opera debut will follow in 2013 with a new production of Parsifal.