"Brilliant performance...Filsell's prodigious piano technique was clearly evident throughout this performance but always as a servant to the music...[the audience] burst into thunderous applause as they leapt to their feet."(The American Organist)
"Jeremy Filsell's performance was of a world-class standard...This could so easily have been an opportunity for Filsell merely to stun the audience with his virtuosity; it is further to his credit that above the huge mental and physical demands a live performance of this work provides, his understanding of the music, and his success in communicating it with integrity and sensitivity, shone through." (Choir & Organ, London)
"Flawless playing of virtuoso works; performances of which the composer would be proud."
(The American Organist)
"Stunning recital...Exceptional instrumental virtuosity is only one aspect of the unusual musical talents of Jeremy Filsell, whose recording career has taken off with a splendid CD of the music of Eugène Goossens.... Marvelously played."(Felix Aprahamian, Church Times, London)
"I can't think when I've heard such exciting organ playing....a fiery player, one who understands that music rarely wants to relax too much....this is playing of a remarkable rhythmic nuance."
(Scott Cantrell, The American Organist)
"From the moment we met at the airport I was taken with his charm and graciousness, which never flagged during the several days he spent with us. His concert was simply spectacular--he executed every nuance of a very demanding program with ease and elan, and exploited every color of our extensive instrument....a distinguished artist." (Charles G. Frischmann, Lenape Valley Presbyterian Church, New Britain, Pennsylvania)
"Sublime...virtuosity that hides virtuosity...An immaculate recital by an immaculate organist."
(Classic CD, England)
"Jeremy Filsell gives a virtuoso performance, catching the mood and spirit of the music and using the resources of the organ to excellent effect....splendid playing." (Organists' Review, England)
"It is doubly pleasurable when a performer as capable as the English keyboardist Jeremy Filsell comes along...(to) present a charming program...Filsell demonstrated not only his technical skills, with some very difficult pedal work for the feet, but also a keen ability to exploit the organ's dynamic possibilities....Filsell maintained an exciting sense of forward propulsion to a majestic climax."
(The Flint Journal, Michigan)
"The piano sonata [of Reubke] is a great work, and Filsell's reading is superb: dashing, but nevertheless conherent, controlled, and mature."
(The American Organist)
"Technically, he's on top of the game...absolutely brilliant technique, demanding (and getting) enormous respect and appreciation for the supreme magnitude of the achievement [complete Dupré]."
(The American Organist)
"Jeremy Filsell is a gifted performer, as a pianist and also as an organist, and he is a most convincing and persuasive guide to this repertoire. He has an especially pleasing colour at softer dynamics...When necessary he is inwardly brooding...or outwardly ebullient...imaginatively and expressively played...excellently played."(Gramophone, London)
Jeremy Filsell
concert
organist & Pianist
"Beautifully played...sparks of brilliance." (Choir & Organ, London)
Jeremy Filsell was Principal Organist at the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He has a discography of more than 25 CDs on both piano and organ and maintains a busy performance career on both instruments throughout Europe, Scandinavia and North America. Gramophone magazine commented on the series of 12 CDs that comprised the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 2000, offering that it was 'one of the greatest achievements in organ recording'. In 2005, Signum released a 3-disc set on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen of the complete organ symphonies of Louis Vierne. They were BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September of that year.
As a teenage student of Nicolas Kynaston Jeremy earned his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists, winning all the major prizes and the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He is a graduate of Oxford University and of London's Royal College of Music (where he studied piano performance under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara) and was awarded his PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire/BCU for a thesis researching aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. He has held a number of teaching positions (until 2008 at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester), sung professionally as a lay clerk in the choirs of Guildford Cathedral and St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, given masterclasses at universities and summer schools in both the UK and USA and has served twice on international organ competition juries in Switzerland. He was a featured artist at the AGO National Convention in Minneapolis/St Paul in June 2008 and recent recital engagements have taken him across the USA and to Germany, France, Finland and Norway.
Jeremy Filsell is an artist equally accomplished and renowned as a pianist, and he is frequently booked to perform on both instruments during the same recital. This certainly makes for increased audience interest. He is one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ and his Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland. In recent years, he has recorded for Guild and Signum, the solo piano music of Eschmann, Howells, Goossens, Bernard Stevens, Rachmaninov and the two Sonatas of Julius Reubke