TheBaronian Suite

GRAMMY-nominated organist Stephen Tharp is the Artist-in-Residence at New York's Riverside Church. For his work as a concert and recording artist, composer, teacher and competition adjudicator, he was awarded the 2011 International Performer of the Year Award by the American Guild of Organists, as well as the 2015 Paul Creston Award for outstanding work in organ and church music. His concerts across five continents include an October 2025 inaugural recital for the Trinity Church Wall Street organ. He is also an advocate for new organ music, with works dedicated to him by Samuel Adler, George Baker, Thierry Escaich, Jean Guillou, Anthony Newman and others.

Lauded as “impressive... spontaneous... subtle...” by The New York Times, Justin Bischof is one of the most eclectic artists and leaders of his generation. He is an internationally acclaimed orchestral and opera conductor as well as concert organist, pianist and improviser. He has performed in some of the world's great venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Rose Theater at Lincoln Center, the Tonhalle of Zurich, the Eli Broad Theatre of Los Angeles, the Royal Opera House Oman, St. Paul's Cathedral London, Notre Dame Paris and Cologne Cathedral, to name a few. He has collaborated with some of the world's most prominent artists including Joshua Bell, Philippe Entremont, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun and Roberta Peters. As an orchestral conductor, he has worked with numerous ensembles including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Vancouver Symphony, the Royal Symphony of Oman, the State Philharmonic Kavkazskiye of Russia, the WAAPA orchestra in Perth, Australia, and the National Orchestra of Haiti.

Jeremy Filsell is one of only a few virtuoso performers as both pianist and organist, and 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, and he has recorded the solo piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugène Goossens and Johann Christoph Eschmann. Recent releases include Rachmaninov's solo piano music (Signum), the first and second Rachmaninov Concertos (Raven) and the piano music of Francis Pott (Acis). He is a Steinway Piano Artist and his discography includes more than 35 solo recordings. He 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. Jeremy studied at Oxford University, the Royal College of Music in London and Birmingham City University/Conservatoire (for a PhD on aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré). Before moving permanently to the US in 2008, he held 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 the Basilica of the National Shrine and the Church of the Epiphany in Washington DC, Washington National Cathedral and Peabody Conservatory. For seven years he was Organist and Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, where he broadened the church's concert series, expanded the choir's repertoire to include more American and 21st-century music, and recorded the choral music of William Byrd, Gerre Hancock, Calvin Hampton and Kenneth Leighton (Signum). He is now Director of Music at Christ Episcopal Church in Bradenton, Florida.