John Philip Kitchen, born on October 27, 1950, in the United Kingdom, is a Scottish classical organist, harpsichordist, and music scholar. After earning degrees from Glasgow University, Kitchen completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, researching seventeenth-century French harpsichord music. From 1976 to 1988, Kitchen taught at the University of St Andrews before joining the faculty at the University of Edinburgh. His recording portfolio includes The Usher Hall Organ (2004), Russell: Complete Organ Voluntaries (2013), which featured the restored 1829 J.C. Bishop organ, and The Usher Hall Organ Volume II (2015). Kitchen also recorded the complete organ works of Johann Ludwig Krebs. In 2016, Kitchen was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to music.
