"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)
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Jeremy Filsell
concert
organist & Pianist
"Beautifully played...sparks of brilliance." (Choir & Organ, London)
Jeremy Filsell is acknowledged as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both piano and organ. He has appeared as a solo pianist in Russia, Scandinavia, the USA, and throughout the UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Shostakovich, John Ireland, and Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd concertos). He has recorded the solo piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugene Goossens, and Johann Eschmann for Guild. Recently released were discs of Rachmaninov’s piano music for Signum and two of French Mélodies accompanying Michael Bundy (baritone) for Naxos.
Jeremy Filsell has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA, and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles and his discography comprises more than 25 solo recordings. Gramophone magazine commented on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 2000 that it was “one of the greatest achievements in organ recording.” In 2005, Signum released a 3-disc set of the six organ symphonies of Louis Vierne, recorded on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen. This was BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September of that year. He has taught at universities, summer schools, and conventions in both the UK and USA and has served twice on international organ competition juries. Recent solo recital engagements have taken him across the USA and UK and to Germany, France, Finland, and Norway.
A Limpus prize winner and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians for FRCO as a teenager, Jeremy Filsell was organ scholar at Keble College Oxford where he continued organ studies with Nicolas Kynaston and also Daniel Roth in Paris. As a graduate, he studied Piano at the Royal College of Music under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara and later completed a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire/BCU researching aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. Before moving to the USA in 2008, he taught organ and academic studies for ten years at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and was a lay clerk in the Queen’s choir at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He now combines international performing and teaching activities with being Artist-in-Residence at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.