Luke Mitchell – Live Organ Recital from The Queen's College, Oxford. 1.10pm, 28 January 2026

Описание: with Verena Eggensberger (violin)
and Arthur Barton (chamber organ)

Georg Muffat (1653–1702) Toccata Prima
Luke Mitchell Four Improvised Versets on Crudelis Herodes in French late 17th century style
Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–67) Toccata in E minor Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) Fantasia Prima
Georg Muffat Sonata in D major
Girolamo Frescobaldi Canzona Quarta
Georg Muffat Toccata Septima

Luke Mitchell is a prize-winning London based Organist, Harpsichordist and Conductor. His organ playing spans five centuries of repertoire across a broad recital portfolio, with a particular focus on 17th century repertoire and improvisation. Recent engagements having included recitals at St Paul’s Cathedral, Trinity College Cambridge and all-Bach programmes for the St Alban’s International Organ Festival and Oxford Philharmonic Bach/Mendelssohn Festival. As a harpsichordist he has enjoyed concerto appearances at the London Handel Festival, Keble Early Music Festival and Marylebone Festival, also directing at the latter two. He has enjoyed performing as a continuo player with groups such as Instruments of Time and Truth, Contrapunctus, Academy Baroque Players and The Dunedin Consort, and the Academy of Ancient Music.

He read Music as an Organ Scholar at The Queen’s College, Oxford, graduating with the Boise Scholarship for Performance, and playing live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and touring with the renowned choir, and in his final year was organist for their recording of Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Academy of Ancient Music. He further held scholarships with the university Schola Cantorum as a conductor, and with New Chamber Opera, initially as repetiteur and later as Studio Director, leading five staged productions and multiple concerts. He played in all the major recital series, and studied organ with Stephen Farr, William Whitehead and Pieter Van Dijk, and began harpsichord studies with Laurence Cummings. He is currently a post-graduate Harpsichord student at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Harriet Cohen early keyboard prize in 2025.

He is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Marylebone Parish Church, and co-directs the St Marylebone Festival with Bertie Baigent. Forthcoming engagements includes directing a tour of Charpentier’s Christmas works, a recording of organ music from the French Grand Siécle, and a recital including his own transcriptions of scenes from Wagner’s Parsifal at Westminster Abbey.