Luke Mitchell Organ Recital

To be given by Luke Mitchell, Organ Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford.

Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Rhapsody No. 1 in Db – Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Sonata on the 94^th Psalm – Julius Reubke (1834-1858)

Luke Mitchell is currently a third-year music student and Organ scholar at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He also holds a repetiteur scholarship with New Chamber Opera, with whom he regularly directs concerts and stage works. Last year he held the conducting scholarship with the University Schola Cantorum, and currently directs the Deitatis Consort and Players. As Organ Scholar at Queen’s alongside accompanying and occasionally directing the choir, he has performed as a continuo player with the Academy of Ancient Music and Instruments of Time and Truth, as well as playing on BBC Radio 3 as an organist. Prior to this, he was Organ Scholar of Worcester Cathedral, where he became a prize-winning Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and at Winchester College, where he gained an LTCL with distinction in harpsichord performance. Recent engagements in Oxford include recitals at New College, Christ Church and Keble, and playing in the Oxford Byrd 400 festival, in addition to his termly recitals at Queen’s, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 at the Keble Early music festival. In Oxford he is active as organist, harpsichordist and conductor, as a solo recitalist and collaborative keyboardist, and his direction with New Chamber Opera has fielded several successful staged and concert performances of Baroque works. He has studied organ with George Castle, James McVinnie, Stephen Farr, William Whitehead, Pieter Van Dijk and Jeremiah Stephenson, and harpsichord with Penelope Cave and Laurence Cummings.