Jeremy Filsell

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Jeremy Daniell Filsell (born 10 April 1964) is an English pianist, organist and composer who currently serves as director of music at Saint Thomas Church, New York City.[1]

Biography

Having played piano and organ from a young age, Filsell was a Limpus prize winner for the

St Albans International Organ Competition
.

He has particular interest in English piano music and French organ music. He plays in a piano trio with Oliver Lewis, violin, and Neil Heyde, cello, and a piano duo with Francis Pott.

Piano

He has performed as a piano soloist around the world, and recorded in solo and concerto repertoire for

repetiteur for John Eliot Gardiner, Vernon Handley and Sir Charles Groves. From 1989 to 1991 he was pianist of the European Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has recorded little-known piano music by Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells, Carl Johann Eschmann, and Bernard Stevens, and the piano and organ sonatas of Julius Reubke
.

Organ

He performed the complete organ works of

University of Central England.[5] In 2021, Filsell performed Dupré's complete organ works, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the composer's death, in a concert series at Saint Thomas Church in New York, where Dupré himself once played and recorded some of his works.[6]

He has made original transcriptions for organ of orchestral works (such as Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice) and transcribed the improvisations of Pierre Cochereau as recorded at Notre-Dame de Paris.[7] These are published by Editions Chantraine, Belgium.

He has made a complete recording of the six Organ Symphonies of

Abbatiale Saint-Ouen, Rouen, and the organ music of Arthur Wills and Francis Pott, amongst many others.[8]

Academic and professional posts

Until 2008 he was lecturer in academic studies at the Royal Academy of Music, visiting tutor in organ studies at the

Henry Wood and Oundle International Summer Schools, Eton Choral Courses, and in the U.S. at Yale University and Utah State University
.

From 2008 to 2009, Filsell was principal organist of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He then directed the music at Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Baltimore,[10] and in 2010 became artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, where he performed Olivier Messiaen's work La Nativité du Seigneur on 18 December 2011.

In 2019 he succeeded Daniel Hyde as director of music at Saint Thomas' Church, Manhattan, New York City.[11]

Notes and references

  1. ^ The Observer: A new top 10 for choirs – mentions a work he composed
  2. ^ "Article in Classical Music magazine about the Dupré recitals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2007.
  3. ^ "The DupréLegend". Pipedreams.org. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Home Guildmusic - Onlineshop f?r CDs und DVDs aus Klassik, Weltmusik, Jazz, Blues, Gospel". Guildmusic.com. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Abstract of Ph.D. thesis" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  6. ^ Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City. Dupré: The Complete Works for Organ I (23 January 2021). Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. Trinity Wall Street
    , New York City, at which he performs these transcriptions
  8. ^ Discography: Guild Music: Jeremy Filsell; Sanctuary Classics: Jeremy Filsell; Signum Records: Jeremy Filsell Archived 2007-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "RNCM: Jeremy Filsell". Rncm.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Jeremy Filsell". Jeremyfilsellmusic.com. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Jeremy Filsell Called to Succeed Daniel Hyde | About | Saint Thomas Church". Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.

External links

Preceded by Organist and Director of Music,
Saint Thomas Church, New York
2019– 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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