Jeremy Filsell has established a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ.
He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA, across the UK and has appeared regularly at St John's Smith Square, the Wigmore and Conway Halls in London. He has worked with the BBC Singers and orchestras under Stephen Cleobury, Pierre Boulez, Barry Wordsworth and Ronald Corp, as repetiteur for John Eliot Gardner, 
Vernon Handley and Sir Charles Groves and he was Pianist with the European Contemporary Music Ensemble between 1989 and 1991. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd & 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland. In recent years, he has recorded for Guild the solo piano music of Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells, Carl Johann Eschmann, Bernard Stevens and the two Sonatas of Liszt's pupil Julius Reubke. Classic CD magazine commented that in his pianism "he does not attract for his virtuosity but for his ability to make the music unfold with irresistible logic and clarity: music-making of the highest calibre." He is Pianist with the Burghersh Piano Trio (with colleagues, Oliver Lewis, Violin and Neil Heyde, Cello), who perform regularly in Chamber Music series within the UK.
As an organist, Jeremy's extensive discography comprises solo discs for Guild, Signum, Herald and ASV. He has recorded for BBC Radio 3 in solo and concerto roles and an extensive solo career has .jpg)
included recent recitals in the UK, USA (where he toured for the 12th time in April 2008 and where he was a featured artist at the 2008 AGO National Convention in Minneapolis), Germany (Landsberg), France (St Sulpice Paris and Chartres Cathedral), Finland (Lahti Festival), Norway (Oslo Dom) and masterclasses in Performance and Interpretation on the Henry Wood (Ireland) and Oundle International Summer Schools, Eton Choral Courses and at Yale and Utah State Universities in the USA. In 1998 he completed recording the complete oeuvre pour orgue of Marcel Dupré (12 CDs) for Guild and in 2004, recorded the six Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Ouen Rouen for Signum (BBC Radio 3's Disc of the Week September 2005). His concert representation in the UK and Europe is provided by Chameleon Arts Managementand in the USA by Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. Recent recording projects have included two discs of French Mélodies (by Vierne, Widor, Dupré and Tournemire) with Michael Bundy (Baritone), and one of Rachmaninov's piano music by for Guild (Sonata no. 2 in Bb Op. 36, Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 and Preludes Op. 32).
A Limpus prize winner and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians for FRCO as a teenager, Jeremy graduated from Oxford University as Organ Scholar at Keble College, pursuing organ studies at the time with Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth in Paris. He subsequently studied Piano as a post-graduate with David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music and then privately at the University of Surrey with Martin Hughes.
His subsequent career has included posts at Cranleigh School, Ely Cathedral, St Luke's Chelsea, St Peter's Eaton Square, the London Oratory School, Royal Holloway College University of London and Eton College. Until recently, he combined teaching posts at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with a lay clerkship in the choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. In 2007 he was awarded a PhD (Birmingham Conservatoire PhD abstract) for his thesis examining aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré and served for the second time as a jury member at the Concours International pour l'orgue in Saint-Maurice d'Agaune. Since moving to the USA in 2008, he has served the music programmes of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC and the historic Episcopal church of Old St Paul's in Baltimore MD. He now lives in Washington DC and combines international performing and teaching commitments with being Artist-in-Residence at Washington National Cathedral.
