"I must register a certain shock at the sheer brilliance of his playing" (Gramophone)
Welcome to the website of Jeremy Filsell, one of the few performers to have established a concert career as both a Pianist and Organist on the international stage.
Please browse the site and discover more about Jeremy's recitals, recordings, publications , interests and activites as a musician living and working in the USA.
Latest News
In the Studio:
Radio broadcast this Sunday on http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2012/1202 - Jeremy Filsell, Artist At Large … the British-born recitalist, artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, has made an international reputation with his recordings, arrangements, and compelling performances.
Performances
during 2011/12 Jeremy will perform on a number of occasions his new transcription for Organ of RACHMANINOV’s Symphonic Dances Op. 45, about which Tim Swanson on PIPORG-L@list.uiowa.edu wrote: ... the Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso undertaking of nigh epic dimensions. [Filsell] brought the vast orchestral score to life as symphonic organ music with heroic energy. The passion and drama (exemplified in the titanic contention between the Dies Irae and the Blagosloven yesi, Gospodi in the final movement) was authentic and gripping. A piece of this length demands virtually boundless skill in creating a kaleidoscope of organ timbres corresponding to Rachmaninoff’s constantly varying palette of orchestral sound. In this, as in the other dimensions of musicianship, Jeremy Filsell is peerless ...
The Evening Canticles
(Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis), written in 2001, for the Choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle (SATB & Organ) have recently been published by Shorter House Publications. Next performance: Washington National Cathedral Choir: 12th February 2012
Latest Recording
2011 saw the release of a new SIGNUM recording (SIGCD 230) of RACHMANINOV'S piano music.
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