Andreas Fischer studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, specialising in church music, organ and conducting. His teachers included Franz Lehrndorfer (organ), Gitti Pirner (piano), Roderich Kreile (choral conducting) and Hanns-Martin Schneidt (symphony conducting), whose assistant he was at the Munich Bach Choir and the Hochschule für Musik from 1989 to 1993. In 1997 Andreas Fischer won 3rd prize at the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiburg. The musician has toured throughout Germany and abroad, performing the harpsichord and the organ.
As the Music Director of the Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen, Andreas Fischer upholds the organ music traditions dating back to the Middle Ages. As well as performing the organ during divine worship and at concerts, Andreas Fischer also conducts the church’s large chorus. Since his appointment in 1994, the musician and this chorus have performed many significant choral works including every oratorio and most cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in addition to such works as Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and the Requiems by Mozart, Verdi and Britten. Fischer has appeared on numerous occasions with Hamburg’s Camerata orchestra under Max Pommer. As an organist he frequently tours with the Hamburger Symphoniker, collaborating with such conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Muhai Tang and Andrei Boreiko. 2005 saw the release of a recording of works by Bach, Buxtehude, Scheidemann and Reincken performed by Andreas Fischer on the Silbermann organ in Freiburg. A recording of works by Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Reincken, Bach and Höller performed on the restored organ of the Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen came in 2009 and the first CD with the complete organ followed in 2013. 2013-2016 he performed the complete organ-works of J.S.Bach in St. Catherine’s, Hamburg.