Andrew Koll is a specialist in aural training, harmony and counterpoint, just intonation, and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He founded the Canberra Bach Ensemble in 1999 and has directed numerous Canberra choirs and instrumental ensembles. These include Canberra Choral Society’s 2018 performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, BWV 244; the ANU Choral Society (SCUNA); University of Canberra Chorale; the Choir of St Paul’s Manuka; and the Canberra Community Orchestra, now the National Capital Orchestra.

 

After completing his studies at the ANU School of Music in the late 1990s, Andrew established the Real Bach Society, a music study group for which he presents multimedia seminars exploring the musical, historical, liturgical and theological interconnections within Bach’s music, and the musical disciplines underpinning Bach’s art. He is a regular participant in Bach Network Dialogue Meetings at Madingley Hall, Cambridge. In 2024, he received a Canberra Critics Circle award for conducting CBE’s St John Passion and for leading the cantata program later performed by CBE at the Leipzig Bach Festival.