Soloists
Jeremy Filsell - Organ & Piano

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, Shostakovich and 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."  

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 included recent recitals in the UK, USA (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). 

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.

Jeremy Filsell - Organ & Piano

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  • “Technically he is outstanding, but what impresses me most is his uncanny musical insight and the sheer persuasive power of his performances.”
    Gramophone
  • “Jeremy Filsell's performance was of world class standard.”
    Choir & Organ
  • “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
  • “Sublime virtuosity that hides virtuosity. An immaculate recital by an immaculate organist.”
    Classic CD
  • Vierne - Organ Symphonies
    Vierne - Organ Symphonies
    Louis Vierne Complete Organ Symphonies - 3 CD Set [SIGCD063]
  • Pott - Christus
    Pott - Christus
    Christus: Passion Symphony for Solo Organ, by Francis Pott [SIGCD062]
  • Cochereau - L'improvisateur Extraordinaire
    Cochereau - L'improvisateur Extraordinaire
    A re-creation of the improvisational genius of Pierre Cochereau on the superb Walker organ of the modern Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral [CDDCA1104]
  • Eschmann - Frühlingsblüthen
    Eschmann - Frühlingsblüthen
    Piano music by Johann Carl Eschmann [GMCD 7273]