Concerts at Calvary: Jeremy Filsell | March 8, 2025

Jeremy Filsell is one of only a few virtuoso performers as both a pianist and organist. He has appeared as a solo pianist in Russia, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia and throughout the USA and UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich, John Ireland, and the Rachmaninov cycle. He has recorded the piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens and Johann Christoph Eschmann, and recent releases have included albums of Rachmaninov’s solo piano music, that of Francis Pott, and the first and second Rachmaninov Concertos. Jeremy is on the international roster of Steinway Artists 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 as both pianist and organist, and as a solo artist he has toured across the USA and UK, in Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. In North America, he concertizes under the auspices of Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. Jeremy Filsell studied first as an Organ Scholar at Oxford University, then as a pianist at the Royal College of Music in London, and gained a PhD in Musicology from Birmingham City University. Before moving to the USA in 2008, he held Academic and Performance lectureships at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, and was a lay clerk in the Queen’s choir at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. In the US, he has served programs at the Church of the Epiphany, and the National Cathedral in Washington DC, and was Professor of Organ at Peabody Conservatory, before moving to New York in 2019 to become Organist & Director of Music at Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue.