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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
Tuesday 1 September – end of October
Losing Identity explores the silent grief and resilience of women fleeing Ethiopia and Eritrea across the Mediterranean Sea in unsafe, overcrowded boats.
Monday 7 September 1.10pm
Anna Cooper (soprano) and Robert Nicholas (baritone) present Menotti’s opera, The Telephone, directed by Harrison Knights and musical directed by Michael Haslam (pianist).
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.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word.
We offer hospitality to people going through homelessness and speak out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
St James’s strives to advocate for earth justice and to develop deeper connections with nature.
We aim to be a place where you can belong. We have a unique history, and the beauty of our building is widely known. Our community commits to faith in action: social and environmental justice; creativity. and the arts
We strive to be a Eucharist-centred, diverse and inclusive Christian community promoting life in abundance, wellbeing and dignity for all.
St James’s Piccadilly has been at the heart of its community since 1684. We invite you to play your part in securing this historic place for generations to come.
It costs £5,000 each day to keep the doors of St James’s open to all who already need us.
A reimagined St James’s realised. A redesigned garden, courtyard and new building capacity—all fully accessible— will provide beautiful spaces for all as well as improving our environmental performance.
Whether shooting a blockbuster TV series or creating a unique corporate event, every hire at St James’s helps our works within the community.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Wednesday 9 September 1.10pm
Jad Grainger graduated in his Masters in performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2024.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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Free admission | Donations welcome
Programme
Debussy Images II
Liszt: Nuages Gris, Wiegenlied, En Rêve, Valse Oubliée no1, Csardas Macabre
Bartok: 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs op20
Artist Bio
Born in Norwich, Jad Grainger graduated in his Masters in performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2024. He moved to London in 2018 to commence his undergraduate study at the Guildhall. At the Guildhall, Jad’s principal study was with Philip Jenkins, while he also played in masterclasses with Robert Levin, Noriko Ogawa, Boris Berman, Paul Roberts and Leslie Howard. In 2022 Jad was a finalist of the Guildhall School’s Beethoven Competition, playing Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata op57, 2023 and 2024 saw more success in Guildhall Competitions, being a finalist in the ‘Ivan Sutton Chamber prize’ (2023) and the ‘Romantic piano prize’ (2024). For the conclusion of his Masters, Jad worked with Professor David Dolan for a Mozart piano concerto project involving improvisatory elements, including cadenzas, arranged for piano and string quartet. Both in 2024 and 2025, Jad travelled to Italy for masterclasses with Federico Colli at the “Lake Garda Music prestige academy” and to France; to teach, play concerts and participate as a scholar at “Music at Chateau D’Aix” with Paul Roberts, Charles Owen and Martin Sturfält. Parallel to his development as a soloist, Jad has relished working both with the “Elvira Trio” in his final year at Guildhall and afterwards; where they cultivated a relationship and played concerts regularly for the ‘Friends of the UK Mendelssohn Foundation’. The trio also played a recital at St Mary’s Perivale in spring 2025. Jad inaugurated the Reform Club’s two piano recital series alongside Leslie Howard in September 2024 with Percy Grainger’s ‘Lincolnshire Posy’ and Rachmaninoff’s ‘Symphonic Dances’. Jad later returned to the reform club in 2025 for a solo recital and a Beethoven Masterclass playing for Boris Giltburg. In addition to trio playing, Jad has been a regular collaborator at Norwich Cathedral chapel with violinist Dylan Latham where they played recitals on behalf of the Norwich School in 2023,2024 and 2025. Highlights in 2026 are performing in Girona, Oxford and East Sussex.
Presented in association with Liszt Society
