Biography

Luke Mitchell is a prize-winning Harpsichordist, Organist and Conductor, who combines a broad portfolio of work with posts in London and Oxford. As a Harpsichordist he recently took 1^st Prize in the Harriet Cohen competition with music by Francois and Louis Couperin, the first winner in its history not to play an all-Bach programme. He recently made his sold-out concerto debut at the London Handel Festival, having formerly appeared as concerto soloist and director at the Keble Early Music Festival, and directs several of the Brandenburg Concerti at the Marylebone Festival this year. As a continuo player has performed with the Academy Baroque Soloists and Dunedin Consort, Academy of Ancient Music and Instruments of Time and Truth. His organ recital work has seen him recently perform at St. George’s Hanover Square, the University of St. Andrews and Trinity College Cambridge, with upcoming performances including an all-Bach programme for the St. Albans International Organ Festival, and Reubke’s Sonata on the 94^th Psalm at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. He read music at The Queen’s College Oxford, holding an Organ Scholarship, alongside scholarships with the University Schola Cantorum and New Chamber Opera as a conductor. Whilst at Oxford, he played in all the major recital series, and won the Boise Scholarship for Performance, and directed four productions with New Chamber Opera. Prior to this he was Organ Scholar of Worcester Cathedral, where he became a performance prize-winner of the Royal College of Organists. He is currently a post-graduate Historical Performance student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying Harpsichord with Carole Cerasi and Steven Devine, having formerly studied with Laurence Cummings and Penelope Cave. He is Assistant Director of Music at St. Marylebone Parish Church, and the Graduate Organist at Exeter College Oxford.

Award: Harriet Cohen Bach Prize 2025

Photo Credit: Andrew Prior