Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, PA, John Walthausen is also the co-founder of Filament, a Philadelphia-based ensemble dedicated to exploring the rich chamber music repertoire of 17th century Northern Europe.
Accomplished as a recitalist, Walthausen has been heard in concert throughout Europe in Paris, Chartres, Poitiers, Toulouse, Hamburg, Milan, Treviso, Innsbruck, Basel, and Zurich. From 2015 to 2016, he served as organist-in-residence at Sapporo Concert Hall in Hokkaido, where he performed and recorded on the hall’s four-manual organ by Alfred Kern and in cities across Japan. Recent projects have taken him to New York, Boston, Washington DC, New Orleans, Victoria (British Columbia), Cincinnati, and Bogotá.
In 2019, he co-founded the ensemble Filament with violinist Evan Few and viola da gamba player Elena Smith.
