ANDREW FYSH

Bass

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Originally from Hobart—where he joined St David’s Cathedral Choir as a treble—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.

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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. He also 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’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri.

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As a regular bass soloist with the Canberra Bach Ensemble 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 Bach’s masses, oratorios and Passions.

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In 2024, while in Europe to perform with the Canberra Bach Ensemble at the Leipzig Bach Festival, 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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His performances with Limestone Consort include solo cantatas by Scarlatti. He will join the ensemble in a French Baroque program at the Albury Chamber Music Festival in November 2026. In 2027, he has been invited to perform at the Westerkerk again, in the lead-up to the Canberra Bach Ensemble’s return appearance at the Leipzig Bach Festival.