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We offer daily services and a cultural programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate
St James’s hosts inclusive services and a cultural programme. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
St James’s is a place to explore, reflect, pray, and support all who are in need. We are a Church of England parish in the Anglican Communion.
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Friday 17 October 1.10pm
Pianist Xak Bjerken has appeared as soloist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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Whether £5 or any amount you’re able to give. Donations can be made in cash in the basket on your way out, or by tap donation at the machines at our exits. Your generosity helps support our cultural events and charitable services. Thank you.
Free admission | Donations welcome
Programme
In Memory (2016)Christopher Stark (b. 1980)
From Preludes, Book II (1913)Claude Debussy Feuilles mortes(1862-1918) La Puerta del Vino La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune General Lavine, eccentric
Chorale from Jatékok, book V/11 (1981)György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Elegy (2016)Joseph Phibbs (b. 1974)
Chorale from Album Leaves (2002)Steven Stucky (1949-2016)
Preludes (2024)Elizabeth Ogonek freely, gently(b. 1989) peppy, cheerful majestic sweetly, with affection quasi-improvisatory
from Sonata for Piano (2014)Steven Stucky Chorale and Coda
St James’s is grateful for the generous support of Rolex for this music programme.
Artist bio
Xak Bjerken was for many years a member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, and has held chamber music residencies at Tanglewood, the Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and the Spoleto Festival, and has taught and performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Icicle Creek, and the Kfar Blum festival in Israel. Bjerken performs regularly with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestras, and for over twenty years he has directed Ensemble X, the new music group founded by Steven Stucky. Xak has worked closely with composers Győrgy Kurtag, Sofia Gubaidulina, and George Benjamin, and recently recorded two albums of original compositions with the Bluegrass ensemble EZRA. He is professor of music at Cornell University where he co-directs the international chamber music festival Mayfest with his wife, pianist Miri Yampolsky. He studied with Aube Tzerko at the UCLA and received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of and teaching assistant to Leon Fleisher.
