The Music of Gerre Hancock The Saint Thomas Brass, The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York & Jeremy Filsell

• Gerre Hancock (1934 - 2012):
• 1 Hancock: A Song to the Lamb 04:09
• 2 Hancock: Jubilate 03:46
• 3 Hancock: Infant Holy 02:42
• 4 Hancock: To Serve 03:33
• 5 Hancock: The Saint Thomas Service: Magnificat 04:52
• 6 Hancock: The Saint Thomas Service: Nunc Dimittis 03:22
• 7 Hancock: Air for Organ 04:17
• 8 Hancock: Missa Resurrectionis: Kyrie 00:43
• 9 Hancock: Missa Resurrectionis: Gloria 02:20
• 10 Hancock: Missa Resurrectionis: Sanctus 01:23
• 11 Hancock: Missa Resurrectionis: Benedictus 01:13
• 12 Hancock: Missa Resurrectionis: Agnus Dei 02:09
• 13 Hancock: The Lord Will Surely Come 05:20
• 14 Hancock: You Are One in Christ Jesus 05:32
• 15 Hancock: How Dear to Me 07:22
• 16 Hancock: Come Ye Lofty 02:43
• 17 Hancock: Kindle the Gift of God 04:12
• 18 Hancock: Judge Eternal 05:41
• 19 Hancock: Psalm 8 04:04
• Thomas Tertius Nobel (1867 - 1953):
• 20 Nobel: Ora Labora 02:03
• Gerre Hancock:
• 21 Hancock: Variations on Ora Labora 06:21
• 22 Hancock: Deep River 03:16
• Total Runtime 01:21:03

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The renowned Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys record a fitting tribute to their former Choirmaster and Organist Gerre Hancock (1934-2012). In this post for over 30 years, he was a pivotal figure in the choir's rejuvenation and created a wealth of choral and organ music during his career much of it composed for friends and colleagues across the USA.

The performances are led here by Jeremy Filsell, their present Organist and Director of Music, with additional accompaniment from Benjamin Sheen (Associate Organist) and Nicholas Quardokus (Assistant Organist), and the Saint Thomas Brass ensemble.

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys is considered to be the leading ensemble of its kind in the Anglican choral tradition in the United States. While its primary raison dêtre is to sing five choral services each week, the Choir also performs regularly with Orchestra of St. Lukes and New York Baroque Incorporated as part of Concerts at Saint Thomas. Over recent years, the Choir has toured throughout the US, Europe and Scandinavia with performances at Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls Cathedral in London, Kings College, Cambridge, Dresden and at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. The boy choristers make frequent appearances on local and national television programs.

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 USA and UK. He combined an international recital and teaching career with being director of music at the Church of the Epiphany and then of St. Albans in Washington DC, Artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, and Professor of Organ at the Peabody Conservatory before moving to New York in April 2019 to become Organist & Director of Music at the Church of Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue.

Jeremy Filsell, organ, direction
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
Saint Thomas Brass

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 USA and UK. His concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart and Beethoven through to Shostakovich, John Ireland, Constant Lambert and the Rachmaninov cycle. He has recorded the solo piano J&R 99 (2)music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens and Johann Christoph Eschmann and recent releases include discs of Rachmaninov’s solo piano music (Signum), the first two Rachmaninov Concerti (Raven) and the piano music of Francis Pott (Acis).

Jeremy 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 35 solo recordings. Gramophone magazine commented on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works 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. 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 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 teenager, Jeremy Filsell was a Limpus, Shinn & Durrant prizewinner for FRCO and was awarded the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. As a student of Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth, he studied as an Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford before completing graduate studies in piano performance with David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music in London. His PhD in Musicology from Birmingham City University/Conservatoire was awarded for research involving aesthetic and ATH 20interpretative 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 Queen’s choir at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He combined an international recital and teaching career with being director of music at the Church of the Epiphany and then of St. Alban’s in Washington DC, Artist-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, and Professor of Organ at the Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore), before moving to New York in April 2019 to become Organist & Director of Music at the Church of St. Thomas, 5th Avenue.

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