He owns and runs a recording studio in Salisbury, England, and has been signed to EMI Music Publishing since 2006.
His father, Victor Patrick, was a journalist of Russian and Scottish descent who became deputy editor of the Sunday Express newspaper.
[3] He went on to work as a recording engineer at Odyssey Studios, for example on Marvin Gaye's 1981 album In Our Lifetime?,[4] and as a freelancer.
During the late 1980s and 1990s he produced recordings by numerous international and world music artists, including Mory Kanté, the Gipsy Kings, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Miriam Makeba, and Hugh Masekela.
[7] He has gone on to produce, mix, and arrange recordings by Il Divo, Bryn Terfel, Hans Zimmer, Jonas Kaufmann, 2Cellos,[5] Hayley Westenra, Jackie Evancho,[8] and others.
[11][12] His second Grammy-nominated project was the West Side Story 50th Anniversary recording released in 2007 (Best Musical Show Album).
[14] Patrick has specialised in producing projects that combine original recorded vocals by classic singers and groups with new orchestral arrangements.