Luke Mitchell

Luke Mitchell is a prize-winning Harpsichordist, Organist and Conductor. As a Harpsichordist he took 1st Prize in the Harriet Cohen competition with music by François and Louis Couperin, the first winner in its history not to play an all-Bach programme, and recently enjoyed a Bach-centric series at New College, Oxford. He has appeared as a concerto soloist at the London Handel Festival, having formerly appeared as concerto soloist and director at the Keble Early Music Festival, and directed several of the Brandenburg Concerti at the Marylebone Festival. As a continuo player has performed with The Sixteen, The Academy of Ancient Music, Contrapunctus and Instruments of Time and Truth. His organ recital work has seen him recently perform at St Paul’s Cathedral St. George’s Hanover Square, the University of St. Andrews and Trinity College Cambridge, with a forthcoming recital at Westminster Abbey. 

Luke 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 and several concerts 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. 

Luke is currently a post-graduate Historical Performance student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying Harpsichord with Carole Cerasi, James Johnstone and Steven Devine, having formerly studied with Laurence Cummings and Penelope Cave. He is Assistant Director of Music at St. Marylebone Parish Church where he co-directs the St Marylebone Festival with Bertie Baigent. In 2026-2027 he conducts music by Purcell, Handel, Charpentier, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, C.P.E. and J.S.Bach, both as a guest conductor and with The Duke’s Consort.