
Photo credit Carl Flemsten
Patrik has been a freelance musician since the early 90s, supplemented by a part-time position at Kulturama in Stockholm. His main instrument is the piano, along with all varieties of keyboards. His secondary instruments are the accordion and various flutes.
Patrik began playing the piano at the age of five at Schimmel's piano school on Strandvägen. He switched two years later to private tutor Gunhild Hedenskog and stayed with her until graduation from high school. During the same time, Patrik also played the transverse flute at the Nacka municipal music school. He attended Adolf Fredrik's Music Classes and later Framnäs Folk High School, as well as the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Patrik holds a degree as a music teacher/pedagogue with a teaching certification. He was the bandleader and arranger for Dana Dragomir from 1994 to 2007, has toured with Göran Fristorp and Putte Wickman, and went on two tours in Japan in 2001 with Meja. Additionally, he has participated in many house bands for both SVT and TV4, as well as in all theater pits in Stockholm. For the past twenty years, he has been a steady substitute with Kalle Moraeus's band in various contexts and tours, and until the pandemic also with Cajsastina Åkerström.