ANDREW FYSH

Bass

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Originally from Hobart — where he joined St David’s Cathedral Choir as a treble five decades ago — Andrew has considerable experience as both consort singer and soloist, with a particular interest in Early music nurtured through many years in Melbourne’s renowned Ensemble Gombert under John O’Donnell. Church music continues to feature in Andrew’s career: while living in London in 2005 and 2006, he sang with the Choir of the London Oratory, and occasionally sings with the Choirs of St James’ Church and St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney. He has performed and recorded with The Song Company and Luminescence Chamber Singers on many occasions. Since moving to Canberra in 2012, Andrew has appeared as soloist with all of the city’s leading choirs in works including Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Mozart Requiem, Haydn Nelson Mass, and Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri. As regular bass soloist with the Canberra Bach Ensemble (CBE) and the Sydney Cantata Project and a founding member of Bach Akademie Australia, Andrew’s Bach repertoire now encompasses more than seventy cantatas and nearly all of his masses, oratorios and passions. Last year, while in Europe to perform with CBE at Bachfest in Leipzig, he was invited to be bass soloist at the monthly Cantata Service at Amsterdam’s Westerkerk and undertook vocal coaching with internationally acclaimed Bach specialist Peter Kooij.

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