Biography of Filsell Jeremy:

This series sets the standard for Dupré interpreters of the future and is a landmark in the history of organ recordings…….Superbly insightful..…truly distinguished, compelling and unquestionably authoritative performances; Filsell has phenomenal technique." So commented Gramophone magazine on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré's complete organ works for Guild in 1998/99. Volumes 7 & 11 were Gramophone Critics' Choice nominations in 2000 and 2001. Jeremy Filsell has established a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ, performing as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and across the UK (appearing regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Wigmore Hall in London). His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Piano concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland. In recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. As an organist, his acclaimed discography comprises solo discs for Guild, Gamut, Herald, ASV and Signum. Volumes 7 & 11 of the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 1998/99 were nominated as Gramophone magazine’s Critics’ Choices in 2000 after its reviewer commented “This series sets the standard for Dupré interpreters of the future and is a landmark in the history of organ recordings…….Superbly insightful..… …….his is a heart-stopping display of technique and musicianship....one of the most exciting recordings of organ music made available in recent years”. In 2005 Signum released his recording of the six Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne, made on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Ouen Rouen (BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September 2005). He has recorded regularly for BBC Radio 3 in solo and concerto roles and recent recital engagements have been in the UK, USA, France, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and the West Indies. He is represented in the UK and Europe by Chameleon Arts Management [www.chameleon-arts.co.uk] and the USA by Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists [www.concertartists.com]. A Limpus prize winner for FRCO and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians as a teenager, he studied as an Organ Scholar at Oxford University (Keble College), Piano as a post-graduate at the Royal College of Music (under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara) and Organ privately in Paris with Daniel Roth. Nowadays he divides his time between performing, teaching and research. He has conducted recent master-classes and seminars on Performance and Interpretation in the USA at the Juilliard School New York, the Universities of Yale and Utah and in the UK, at various International Summer Schools. He is a Visiting Tutor in Organ Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, a Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, is on the piano faculty at Eton College and a Lay Clerk in the choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. His PhD thesis is a study of Aesthetic and Interpretative issues in the organ music of Marcel Dupré.