A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Olivier Patey studied with Michel Arrignon, Florent Héau and Arnaud Leroy. He won some of the most prestigious international music competitions: ARD in Munich in 2003 and Carl Nielsen in Odense in 2005. Since then he has had an international career as a soloist, playing with orchestras such as the Prague Philharmonie, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic, among many others.

Principal clarinettist of the world renowned Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Olivier got his first contract as an orchestra musician at the age of 20 in the Garde Républicaine in Paris, then held the chair of principal clarinettist at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He also used to be a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Next to his orchestra positions and solo career, Olivier is a very passionate chamber musician. He has been invited to play at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival in the USA and at the most prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Janine Jansen, Lisa Batiashvili, Amihaï Grosz, Mitsuko Uchida, Eric Le Sage, Ebène and Modigliani quartets as chamber music partners. He has been recently very much involved with the Arties Festival in India.

With his friends Romain Descharnes, pianist, and Gauthier Hermann, cellist and founder of the Arties Festival, Olivier runs the CD label Arties Records, distributed by Harmonia Mundi, where you can find his most recent chamber music recordings.