Jeremy FIlsell is Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church. One of only a few virtuoso performers as both a pianist and organist, his extensive solo career has taken him to Russia, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia, and throughout Europe. His piano concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich, John Ireland, and the complete Rachmaninov cycle, and he has recorded commercially the piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens and Johann Christoph Eschmann. Recent releases have included albums of Rachmaninov’s and Francis Pott’s piano music, and the first and second Rachmaninov Concertos. Jeremy is on the international roster of Steinway Artists, and has recorded for BBC Radio 3, US, UK, and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles. His discography comprises more than 35 solo recordings as both pianist and organist, and in North America, he concertizes under the auspices of Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. Jeremy studied firstly as an Organ Scholar at Oxford University (Keble College), then as a pianist at the Royal College of Music in London, before gaining a PhD in Musicology from Birmingham City University. Before emigrating 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, the National Cathedral and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, and was Professor of Organ at Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore before to moving to New York in 2019 to become Organist & Director of Music at Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue.
