St Michael & All Angels Organ and Parish Rooms Appeal
An Inaugural Recital on our new Pipe Organ
Jeremy Filsell, Artist-in-Residence
Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC
Jeremy Filsell is acknowledged as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both piano and organ. He studied as an organ scholar at Oxford University (Keble College) before completing graduate studies in piano performance at the Royal College of Music in London. He was awarded his PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire/BCU for research into aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré.
Before moving to the US in 2008, he held lectureships at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and was a lay clerk at St. George's Chapel Windsor Castle. He is now artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, director of music at the Church of the Epiphany in downtown Washington, D.C., and Professor of Organ at the Catholic University of America.
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 (1st, 2nd and 3rd concertos). He has recorded the solo piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens, and Johann Eschmann for Guild. Recently released were discs of Rachmaninovs 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 30 solo recordings.Gramophone magazine commented on the series of 12 CDs comprising the première 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. For further information, please visit www.jeremyfilsell.com
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