Andrew O'Connor

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

Andrew has sung more than twenty opera and concert projects for Pinchgut Opera. He has appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, and Canberra Symphony Orchestras in repertoire spanning Bach and Handel to new Australian commissions. He is a Lay Clerk at St Mary's Cathedral Sydney and in 2021 became a founding member of Australian Vocal Ensemble. He was a member of The Song Company 2015-19; 23-26 and teaches at Sydney Grammar School. Internationally he has worked with the VOCES8 Foundation and in 2023 was a member of the American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco.

2026 highlights include the premiere of Chronicle 时•录 with SANSARA at the Aldeburgh Festival and further staged performances in London; Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the upcoming Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Handel's Messiah with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; and other touring, recording, and education projects with Van Diemen's Band, Bach Akademie Australia, Australian Vocal Ensemble, WA Renaissance Music Summer School, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Moorambilla Voices and more.

His debut solo album TRANSFORMATIONS with Van Diemen's Band features bass cantatas by Buxtehude, Bruhns, Tunder, and Schütz alongside new Australian commissions from Brooke Shelley and Alice Chance.

Bio Updated October 2026