Patricia Ryan has performed with some of the world's leading chamber musicians including pianist Emanuel Ax, the Pacifica String Quartet, violinist Geoff Nuttall and Ian Swensen, violist John Largess, Peter Slowik, cellist Norman Fischer, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, David Geber and Natasha Brofsky, among others.

She is the former cellist of the Artaria String Quartet based in St. Paul, Minnesota and faculty of the Artaria Chamber Music School and Stringwood Summer Music Camp. She is a core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic, a member of new music ensemble 10th Wave Chamber Collective based in the Twin Cities as well as the Delphia Cello Quartet. She teaches at Walker|West Music Academy, serving the Twin Cities community.

Ms. Ryan has completed a second Masters of Music at Rice University Shepherd School of Music on full tuition scholarship under the tutelage of Norman Fischer, an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music and a Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and a Bachelors of Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music with Tchaikovsky Competition laureate Nathaniel Rosen and Alexander Suleiman on full scholarship. She has participated in various festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto Festival USA, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, and Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar.

Ms. Ryan performs on a 1976 Gio Batta Morassi cello and a 1988 Roger Zabinski bow.