Luke Mitchell is a prize-winning organist, harpsichordist and conductor, active across a repertoire spanning five centuries in a variety of fields. He is currently Fellow in Historical Keyboards at the Royal College of Music, where he plays, coaches and directs students in repertory spanning chamber music and madrigals to opera and oratorio. He is also Director of acclaimed ensemble The Duke’s Consort, with which he won the Nancy Nuttal Early Music Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. Specialising in repertoire of the late 17th century, they are currently Early Music Ensemble in Residence at the St Marylebone Festival, and in 2027 succeed the Gesualdo Six as a visiting Ensemble at the University of St Andrews, working and performing alongside students. He co-directs the St Marylebone Festival alongside Bertie Baigent, where he directs repertoire from Blow, Monteverdi and Locke to Pärt, Rachmaninoff and Tavener, and from 2022-2024 was Studio Director of New Chamber Opera, Oxford.

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As a Historical Keyboardist, he won 1st Prize in the Harriet Cohen Early Keyboard competition held by The Musicians Company, and recently curated a Bach series at New College Oxford. He has appeared as a concerto soloist and director at the London Handel Festival, Keble Early Music Festival and St Marylebone Festival, and has enjoyed working with several leading ensembles, including The Sixteen, Instruments of Time and Truth, The Academy of Ancient Music and Contrapunctus. As a Harpsichordist he is in demand as a collaborative recording artist and chamber partner, and appears regularly with violinist Verena Eggensberger across the country.

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He maintains a parallel career as an Organist and Church Musician, and is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Marylebone Parish Church, and recently spent a year as Organist of Exeter College, Oxford, and prior to his studies was Organ Scholar of Worcester Cathedral, winning a performance prize from the Royal College of Organists As an Organ Recitalist, recent performances have included Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Grosvenor Chapel for the Royal College of Organists, as well as all-Bach programmes for the St Alban’s International Organ Festival and Oxford Philharmonic, with a forthcoming recital on the new organ at St John’s College, Cambridge. He regularly improvises in concert, both freely and in historical styles, and is currently preparing new transcriptions of Orchestral Works by Wagner and Debussy.

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He read Music at The Queen’s College Oxford as an Organ Scholar, winning the Boise Scholarship for Performance in his Final Year. He also held parallel scholarships with New Chamber Opera, and a conducting scholarship with the University Schola Cantorum. Whilst at Oxford, he played in all the major recital series, appeared multiple times live on BBC Radio 3, and toured and performed extensively with the renown choir at Queen’s. Whilst at Oxford, he studied Organ with Stephen Farr, Conducting with Paul Spicer and Owen Rees, and Harpsichord with Laurence Cummings. He completed a Masters in Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he enjoyed regularly working with guest conductors both as a continuo player and in singer preparation. He continues his studies with Carole Cerasi and James Johnstone.