Jeremy Filsell
concert organist & pianist

08/09 Season Tour Periods:
2008: October 3 through 12
2009: April 17 through 26

Jeremy Filsell is the Senior Organist at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. has a discography of a dozen compact disc recordings on Guild and other labels on both piano and organ, and maintains a performance career on both instruments throughout Europe and in North America. Guild has recently released Jeremy Filsell's recordings of the complete organ works of Marcel Dupré on 12 compact discs.

At the age of 12 Jeremy Filsell made his debut as a pianist, appearing on BBC TV, and by age 19 as a student of Nicolas Kynaston he had earned his Fellowship in the Royal College of Organists, winning all of the major RCO playing prizes in the process and being awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

He was Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford University, and later studied piano performance under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music. He was a prize winner in the 1993 St. Alban's International Organ Competition. He has performed as an orchestral soloist and recitalist in major halls throughout England, and has twice toured in the United States. His most recent CD on the Guild label is a disc of the complete solo piano music of the English romantic composer Eugéne Goossens.

He has served the music programs at Ely Cathedral and two London churches, St. Luke's in Chelsea and St. Peter's at Eaton Square, as well as singing as a lay clerk at Guildford Cathedral while studying at the Royal College of Music.

Jeremy Filsell is an artist equally accomplished and equally renowned as a pianist, and he is frequently booked to perform on both instruments during the same recital which makes for a good deal of increased audience interest.

Sometimes working professionally in both the organ and piano scenes simultaneously leaves Jeremy feeling a bit surreal because one set of peers and one audience knows him entirely as a pianist, while another set of peers and another audience knows him only as an organist. To counterbalance his fame as a pianist, he has invested himself in two recent special organ performance projects at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, London--Francis Pott's 2 hour 20 minute passion symphony "Christus" which Choir & Organ called a "performance of a world-class standard," and a performance of the complete organ works of Marcel Dupré in nine recitals.The National Public Radio program "Pipedreams" has broadcast a program of interviews and performances by English organist Jeremy Filsell devoted to his landmark recording project of the complete organ works of Marcel Dupré.

"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, 2008)

"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)

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"Beautifully played...sparks of brilliance."
(Choir & Organ, London)

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"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)