For more than a decade Perth-born Andrew O’Connor has maintained a busy freelance career encompassing opera, the concert platform, vocal chamber music, and the classroom. Praised for his 'remarkable musicianship' (Limelight Magazine) and 'textured, fine-wine bass baritone' (Arts Hub) he appears regularly with many of Australia's leading music organisations.

In 2025 Andrew appears at the Sydney Festival with Bach Akademie Australia and in multiple programs at the Tasmanian Festival of Chamber Music with Van Diemen's Band, sings Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Handel's Messiah with Pinchgut Opera, Bach's St Matthew Passion with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs at the Sydney Opera House, Katy Abbott's Stories of Awe with the Preston Symphony Orchestra, Faure's Requiem as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Sydney Chamber Choir, and in multiple touring projects for both AVÉ - Australian Vocal Ensemble and The Song Company. He is a Lay Clerk at St Mary's Cathedral Sydney which tours to Rome, Vienna, and Munich this year. 

Other recent highlights include Handel's Messiah with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the World Premiere of Katy Abbott's Hidden Thoughts III with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Bach's St John Passion with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Faure's Requiem with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the role of Harapha in Handel's Samson for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, and numerous roles for Pinchgut Opera including Achilla in Handel's Julius Caesar, Polimante, Erasto and Ombra in Legrenzi's Giustino, Polyphemus in Handel's Acis & Galatea, Gelone in Cesti's Orontea and more. 

In 2022 he made his international debut with the VOCES8 Foundation and in 2023 joined the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco. In an educational capacity he teaches at Sydney Grammar School and the award-winning regional arts program Moorambilla Voices. 

Outside of music, Andrew is always on the hunt for an excellent coffee, a great bowl of pasta, a new favourite red wine, tickets to the latest theatrical hit in Sydney, or a long coastal walking track.

www.andrewoconnor.com.au