Dr. Jeremy Filsell

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, New Zealand and Australia and throughout the US and UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart and Beethoven through to Shostakovich, John Ireland, Constant Lambert and the complete Rachmaninov cycle. Recent recordings include Rachmaninov’s solo piano music (Signum), the first and second Rachmaninov Concertos (Raven), the piano music of Francis Pott (Acis). He is a Steinway Piano Artist and has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA, and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles. His discography comprises more than 35 solo recordings, which includes the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild and the six organ symphonies of Louis Vierne for Signum. Jeremy has taught at universities, summer schools, and conventions in both the UK and US and has served on international competition juries in England, Switzerland and the US. In recent years, solo engagements have taken him across this country, the UK and to Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. As a student he was Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford and a prizewinner in the Royal College of Organists' Fellowship examinations, before completing graduate studies in piano performance at the Royal College of Music in London. He took his PhD at Birmingham City University/Conservatoire where he focused on aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré.

Before moving permanently to the US in 2008, Jeremy held Academic and Performance lectureships at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and was for nine years an alto lay clerk in the choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Since residing in the US, he has combined 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 Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore). In 2018, he was appointed Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York where, while leading the internationally-renowned Choir of Men and Boys, he broadened the artistic profile of the church's concert series, expanded the choir’s repertoire to include more American and 21st-century music, and recorded commercially the choral music of Byrd, Gerre Hancock, Calvin Hampton, and most recently, of Kenneth Leighton (Signum). Having enjoyed musical association with Sarasota for over twenty-five years, he became Director of Music at Christ Episcopal Church in Bradenton, Florida in the summer of 2025.