Andrew Kirk
Andrew Kirk is a freelance choral director, organist, accompanist and composer working mainly in the Bristol and Somerset area. He took up the position as Musical Director of Collegium Singers in November 2024. He is also Director of Henbury Singers, a chamber choir of 20 singers. For five months in 2024, he held the position as Interim Director of Music at Cirencester Parish Church. Andrew has also recently taken up the role as Director of two Good Afternoon Choirs, in North Somerset and Chepstow.
From 2003-2023, he held the position of Director of Music and Organist at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, where he had responsibility for directing several choirs at the church and regularly gave concerts on the famous 1912 Harrison and Harrison organ. In the past year, his organ concerts have included St David’s Cathedral, St Chad’s Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey, Christchurch Priory, Leeds Minster, Albert Hall Nottingham and Brangwyn Hall Swansea.
From 1994-2003 he was Director of Music at St John’s Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield. He also taught class music at three secondary schools, including Lady Manners School, Bakewell. He has been an external consultant for the appointment of Directors of Music in some of the larger churches in the UK.
Born and educated in Leicester, he won an Organ Scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied organ with David Sanger. He spent two years in Western Australia as Assistant Organist at St George’s Anglican Cathedral in Perth. He holds the FRCO Diploma, gaining the Turpin and Durrant prizes for organ playing.
