ANDREW KOLL
 
Artistic Director & Conductor

Andrew Koll founded the Canberra Bach Ensemble in 1999 and remains its Artistic Director and Conductor. His work centres on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, with particular interests in aural training, harmony and counterpoint, just intonation, and the relationships between musical structure, text and theology.

​

He has directed the ANU Choral Society, University of Canberra Chorale, the Choir of St Paul’s Manuka and the Canberra Community Orchestra, now the National Capital Orchestra. In 2018, he conducted the Canberra Choral Society’s performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, BWV 244.

​

Andrew established the Real Bach Society after completing his studies at the ANU School of Music and regularly participates 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 subsequently performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival.