Biography
Jeremy Filsel (Countertenor)
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 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. In 2008, he moved to
the USA as Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, but
now combines recital and teaching work with direction of the music at the historic downtown Baltimore Episcopal church of
Old St Paul's. As a professional singer, he is a member of the Washington Bach Consort (directed by J Reilly Lewis) and
the Washington-based sixteen-part Renaissance vocal group, Chantry (director, Dr David Taylor).
Jeremy Filsel (Countertenor)
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 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. In 2008, he moved to
the USA as Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, but
now combines recital and teaching work with direction of the music at the historic downtown Baltimore Episcopal church of
Old St Paul's. As a professional singer, he is a member of the Washington Bach Consort (directed by J Reilly Lewis) and
the Washington-based sixteen-part Renaissance vocal group, Chantry (director, Dr David Taylor).
