Patrick Farrell is an Australian bassist, composer, and educator based in Brisbane.

His work sits at the intersection of long-term instrumental development and practice-led research. He is currently completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, where his research focuses on embodied technique, melodic organisation, and improvisation on the electric bass.

His approach is shaped by sustained professional practice, with an emphasis on the relationship between physical technique, musical decision-making, and the development of coherence over time.

Selected works
The Life Electric (2011)
Out of My Hands (2025)

As an educator, his work is grounded in a pedagogical framework that treats metric time as the primary orienting structure for melodic improvisation, allowing surface-level musical features to operate flexibly while being organised in relation to larger phrase-level time-spans.

Patrick teaches privately and at tertiary level, and continues to work as an active practitioner alongside his academic research.