Luke Mitchell

An extract from the Gloria of Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit, recorded at a rehearsal in the Duke’s Hall at the @royalacademyofmusic . We can’t wait to perform more of this music again!

Final rehearsals are underway for our concert at the @royalacademyofmusic tomorrow! This one is completely sold out, but keep your eyes peeled for an announcement soon about our next concert 👀🎶

POV: you’re Luke’s score 🎶🎹 Less than a week to go until our Couperin concert at @stmaryleboneparishchurch ! If you’ve been wondering what’s going on behind the scenes as we prepare, here’s a glimpse into the organ loft… 🎶 Couperin’s Trois Leçons de ténèbres 📆 Saturday 21st February, 6pm 📍 St Marylebone Parish Church 🗣️ @carolineblairsoprano and @maryam.wocial , sopranos 🎹 @lukethemitchell , organ

A glimpse of yesterday’s rehearsal with Maryam and Luke, working on some beautiful Couperin. This section, on the Hebrew syllable ‘Vau’, opens the second of Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres. We’ll be performing all three Leçons as part of St Marylebone Festival later this month. Head to their website for more information! 🎶 Couperin’s Trois Leçons de ténèbres 📆 Saturday 21st February, 6pm 📍 St Marylebone Parish Church 🗣️ @carolineblairsoprano and @maryam.wocial , sopranos 🎹 @lukethemitchell , organ and director

As a musician, it’s very important to post a list of all the work I’ve done and people I’ve hung out with in 2025. Sadly I have very few pictures of such things, so here is an interesting piece in the BL which formed the basis of a very beautiful song 250 years later.

A moment of tranquility, recorded in rehearsal at the @royalacademyofmusic last month 🎻 🎶 This excerpt is from the Agnus Dei of Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël H 9

A little over a minute of definitely very super serious and focused recording shenanigans and form confusion and sounds that @lukethemitchell and I created/endured recently 🥸😅🤪 we’ve all been there, right??? #recordingszn #youknowhowitgoes #weareseriousbaroquemusicians #powerpointtransitions

A few extra tickets have just been released for our sold out* gig this Friday… ‼️ 🏃🏻 Get in there quick to join us at the @royalacademyofmusic for an evening of music by Charpentier, including his rarely performed ‘In nativitatem’. Hope to see you there! 🎶 *if you’d like to come but missed out on booking a ticket, still come along as it’s likely there will be some last-minute returns on the day… 👀

It is of concern to me that I never take pictures of my musical activities (life). At the end of August I realised people were doing their customary look at how much work I’ve done this year but not soo much I seem too busy to book posts, but my lack of images seemed to hinder this. So I asked Mr Fardell to take some pictures of me holding written cues and then didn’t post them. Today I have things to do so I am posting them. I have probably not nailed the order. 2-3 was wonderful to accidentally fall back into sacred music at Oxford, working with the choir @exetercollegeox for two terms. This is a very special place and they are in great hands for the coming year, and being able to do music in such a liturgically coherent set up is tremendous. We also did a Bach cantata at evensong because nowhere else does that (joke. But we did the other bits too!) 4-5 various bits of continuo playing, including work with AAM and OxPhil alongside two continuo students/orglings of @queenschoir Legends. 6. Did a concert @handelandhendrix for @londonhandelfestival along RAM colleagues with a fab concerto by Hayes which I took no pictures of. 7. Did my first competition proper, the @themusicianscompany Harriet Cohen Bach prize, playing entirely French music, and won, which was nice. No pictures. 8-10 did you know I still play the organ and like giving recitals. TRIPLE INSTRUMENT recital at St Andrews was fun. 11-12 Bertie Baigent and myself now share the concerts of the St Marylebone festival, and after a fair sabbatical from putting things together I thought I’d do Brandenburgs 3-6 and the B minor Orchestral suite. This was great and people came which was nice. 13-14 Last year I had the joy of being a keyboardist for the RAM Resounding Shores English restoration fest. This was jolly nice but chamber organs are dreadful. Especially because they encourage all sorts of posture nightmares. There are some nice clips but they’re on YouTube anyway. 15 was nice to be asked for all Bach programmes at @oxfordphilharmonicorchestra Inaugural Bach/Mendelssohn festival and @organ_festival in St Albans. 16. First disk! French music! Mmm. 17-20 General things/promise Dixit was good.

Same face, two sides. Haircut needed. Annual picture yeah.

Just make some noises yeah. I dislike that there are zero (0) images of 2 years of operatic waving in Oxford, but many images of me moving instruments. So this is a mid-move back 8’ test. I played the organ in the concert.

Went to some nice sheds with some nice people many months ago.