Education
He studied music at Oxford University, where he was Organ Scholar at Keble College. During this time, he studied organ with Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth.
He studied music at Oxford University, where he was Organ Scholar at Keble College. During this time, he studied organ with Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth.
He went on to study piano with David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music and Martin Hughes at the University of Surrey. He has particular interest in English piano music and French organ music He plays in a piano trio with Oliver Lewis, violin, and Neil Heyde, cello, and a piano duo with Francis Pott.
Piano
He has performed as a piano soloist around the world, and recorded in solo and concerto repertoire for Radio 3.
He has been a repetiteur for John Eliot Gardiner, Vernon Handley and Sir Charles Groves. From 1989 to 1991 he was pianist of the European Contemporary Music Ensemble.
He has recorded little-known piano music by Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells, Carl Johann Eschmann, and Bernard Stevens, and the piano and organ sonatas of Julius Reubke. Organ
He performed the complete organ works of Marcel Dupré in London in 1998, over nine weekly recitals at Street Peter"s, Eaton Square.
He recorded the same works over a two-week period in September of the same year, on 12 CDs.
He completed a Doctor of Philosophy thesis on contextual, analytical and aesthetic issues in the music of Marcel Dupré, at Birmingham Conservatoire/University of Central England. He has made original transcriptions for organ of orchestral works (such as Paul Dukas"s The Sorcerer"s Apprentice) and transcribed the improvisations of Pierre Cochereau as recorded at Notre-Dame de Paris. These are published by Editions Chantraine, Belgium.
He has made a complete recording of the six Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne on the 1890 Cavaillé-College organ in Street Ouen Rouen, and the organ music of Arthur Wills and Francis Pott, amongst many others
Academic and professional posts
Until 2008 he was Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Visiting Tutor in Organ Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, taught at Eton College and was a countertenor Lay Clerk in the choir of Street George"s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Previously he was formerly Assistant Organist at Ely Cathedral, Director of Music at Street Luke"s, Chelsea, Assistant Director of Music Street Peter"s, Eaton Square, both in London.
He has taught masterclasses in performance and interpretation on the Henry Wood and Oundle International Summer Schools, Eton Choral Courses, and in the United States. at Yale University and Utah State University. From 2008 - 2009, Filsell was Principal Organist of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington District of Columbia After Easter 2010, he became Artist-in-Residence at Washington National Cathedral.