Jeremy Filsell - Gaston Litaize: Musique pour orgue (2018)

Jeremy Filsell is one of only a few virtuoso performers as both pianist and organist. He has appeared as a solo pianist in Russia, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand, and throughout the USA and UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart and Beethoven through to Shosta­kovich, John Ireland, and Rach­ma­ninov. He has recorded the solo piano music of Herbert How­ells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens, and Johann Eschmann for Guild, Rach­ma­ninov for Sig­num, and two discs ­of French mélodies accompanying Michael Bundy (baritone) for Naxos. He has performed and recorded the 1st and 2nd Piano Concertos of Rachmaninov with Peter Conte realizing the orchestral score on the Wanamaker organ.

Jeremy Filsell is on the international roster of Steinway Piano Artists and has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA, and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles. His disco­graphy comprises more than 30 solo recordings. Gramophone magazine commented on Filsell’s recording of the complete organ works of Marcel Dupré (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 (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 on international competition juries in England and Switzerland. Recent solo recital engagements have taken him across the USA and UK and to Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. In North America, he concertizes under the auspices of Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.

As a student of Nicolas Kynas­ton in London and Daniel Roth in Paris, Jeremy Filsell studied as an Organ Scholar at Oxford University (Keble College) before completing graduate studies in piano performance with David Park­house and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music in London. He was awarded a PhD in Musicology at Birmingham City University/Conservatoire for research involving aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. Before moving to the USA in 2008, he held Academic and Performance lectureships at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and was a lay clerk in the choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He currently combines an international recital and teaching career with being director of music at The Church of the Epiphany in Washington DC, artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, and Professor of Organ at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.