A native of the UK, Andrew Arthur enjoys a busy and varied freelance career that has seen him perform extensively throughout the United Kingdom and on tour across Europe, South Africa, Canada, Singapore and the USA. Best known for his work in the field of historically informed performance, he is in regular demand as a director, keyboard soloist, accompanist and continuo player, and has worked with many of the UK’s leading period-instrument orchestras, vocal soloists and professional choirs.

Andrew is Musical Director of his own period-instrument ensemble and vocal consort, Orpheus Britannicus, and a long-standing member of the Artistic Leadership Team at the Carmel Bach Festival in California, where he has served as a Director and as Principal Organist & Harpsichordist since 1999. From 2007-2026, he held the position of Associate Director of the internationally acclaimed period-instrument orchestra, The Hanover Band, with whom he undertook a number of recordings and over 200 concert performances, including live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, numerous large-scale tours of orchestral, vocal and chamber repertoire and regular annual performances of Handel’s Messiah and of J.S. Bach’s Passions and Oratorios. From 2006-2014, Andrew also held the position of Principal Conductor of the Euterpe Baroque Consort based in Antwerp, Belgium, during which tenure he broadcast both major works and chamber concerts on live radio for KLARA and appeared regularly at prominent festivals such as Klara in het Paleis and the Festival van Vlaanderen.

As a keyboard player, Andrew’s engagements encompass organ, harpsichord and fortepiano literature and he has given countless performances of concertos by J.S. Bach, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Mozart. In 2007, he toured the UK performing the complete solo organ works of Dieterich Buxtehude, marking the composer’s tercentenary year and he is currently nearing the end of a long-term project to perform a complete cycle of J.S. Bach’s organ works in the USA. His love for chamber music and, in particular, his affinity for keyboard accompaniment has yielded a number of significant collaborations with other leading period-instrumentalists including Elizabeth Wallfisch, Theresa Caudle & Peter Hanson. Together with the baroque violinist and musicologist, Rachel Stroud, he is a member of the newly-formed violin & harpsichord duo, Dialogus1685.

Andrew maintains an active profile as a recording artist and his varied discography has been met with great critical acclaim in the musical Press. In 2019 his ensemble, Orpheus Britannicus, was nominated for an International Classical Music Award for their album of Italian, Austrian and Bohemian baroque music for trumpet and strings with the renowned baroque trumpeter, Robert Farley. More recent releases include albums of Mozart & Schubert Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano with the violinist, Peter Hanson, and J.S. Bach’s complete Concertos for Harpsichord and Strings, BWV 1052-1058 & ‘Brandenburg’ Concerto No. 5 with the Hanover Band. A new solo recording of J.S. Bach’s Six French Suites is due for release on the Inventa label later this year.

Alongside his busy concert, recording and teaching schedule, Andrew has maintained a life-long commitment to liturgical music, an interest nurtured initially through his early training as a Cathedral chorister and subsequently as Organ Scholar and Acting Precentor at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and as deputy Lay-Clerk at St John’s College, Cambridge. He has since held the positions of Associate Director of Music at the great Butterfield Church of All Saints, Margaret Street in London’s West End and Deputy Master of Music of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London.

Andrew is a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge where, in addition to his primary College responsibilities as Director of College & Chapel Music and Director of Studies in Music, he is Coordinator of the University’s Organ Scholarship Scheme and Chairman of the University’s Organ Scholars’ Forum. Amongst his diverse portfolio of musical activities in Cambridge, he works throughout the academic year training the Organ Scholars and directing the Chapel Choir at Trinity Hall with whom, in addition to their regular schedule of services in the College Chapel, he undertakes a number of concerts, recordings and foreign tours.