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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
Sun 29 June – Sun 27 July
For Pride this year, St James’s will exhibit new work by the artist Ariel Collier (she/they/we/our) in the Side Chapel. Collier is a London based conceptual artist, writer, researcher and curator originally from South Florida.
Saturday 19 July 9am
Join us for the walk through the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, which will take us from Harpenden to St Albans.
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 aspire to be a home where everyone can belong. We’re known locally and globally for our unique history and beauty, as well as faith in action, creativity and the arts, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.
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.
The work of St James’s, it costs us £5,000 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who 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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Experience inspiring performances by top emerging artists in our historic venue, renowned for its superb acoustics. Our recitals are programmed in collaboration with leading music colleges and charities, providing a platform for the stars of tomorrow.
Free admission | Donations welcome
Join us and discover exceptional talent in an unforgettable setting.
A new programme bringing exciting live music to your Saturday afternoons. We’re building out from our classical roots to bring you jazz and other music genres that promise to be the sound of a good weekend.
We give a stage to emerging artists, young composers and underrepresented genres—shining a light on new voices and fresh sounds.
Expect everything from classical and jazz to experimental music, all performed live by some of the most talented up-and-coming musicians.
Join us every Saturday at 1.10pm. Discover something unexpected.
Saturday 26 July 1.10pm
Emre Şener is a composer from Istanbul, Turkey. He now studies composition and contemporary music at the Royal Academy of Music, London with a scholarship, under Rubens Askenar.
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Wednesday 30 July 1.10pm
To include works by Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge, Parry and Handel.
Friday 1 August 1.10pm
Julia has received numerous awards and honors, including the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the prestigious Minister of Culture Scholarship for her exceptional contributions to representing Polish culture internationally.
Friday 1 August 7.30pm
Join us as we celebrate two decades of music-making, mentorship, and international collaboration. This performance is the culmination of our summer conducting workshop, showcasing the incredible talent and dedication of this year’s participants.
Saturday 2 August 1.10pm
William Jack is an Australian multi-style cellist and songwriter, based in London. He is best known for incorporating his jazz guitar background into an unconventional style of cello playing, with a passion for breaking boundaries between genres and cultures.
Sun 3 August 2-4pm
Join us for exuberant gospel music with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir in the courtyard.
Wednesday 6 August 1.10pm
Nick Venner is a Greek – Austrian pianist living in Athens, Greece. His musical talent was evident from a very young age where he began his piano studies at the Greek National Conservatoire in Athens.
Friday 8 August 1.10pm
Gonçalo Maia Caetano is a classical guitarist from Portugal currently doing his Advanced Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music with professor Michael Lewin.
Wednesday 13 August 1.10pm
Tyler Hay was born in 1994 and first showed a prodigious talent for the piano when he won the Dennis Loveland award in Kent for his performance of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz no 1 at the age of 11.
Friday 15 August 1.10pm
Taiwanese pianist Yu-Chieh Lin has won top prizes in International competitions, including the 9th International Competition of Slavic Music in Moscow.
Saturday 16 August 1.10pm
Ukrainian composer and pianist Vladyslav Kuznetsov delivers a series of “colour” pieces – this is an album of improvisations, which have never been transcribed.
Wednesday 20 August 1.10pm
Yang Yang (b. 1998) began her piano studies at the age of five with Noor Relijk and later continued her education under the tutelage of renowned professor Jan Wijn.
Friday 22 August 1.10pm
Lisa Archontidi-Tsaldaraki is a Greek violinist and Vitas Kai Yuen Li is a pianist, organist, and composer from Hong Kong.
Saturday 23 August 1.10pm
Yeva was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 2001. She started playing violin when she was 5 and entered the Republican Music College at the age of 9.
Wednesday 27 August 1.10pm
BPSE 2025 Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prizewinner
Friday 29 August 1.10pm
Richard Zhang was born in Jiashan, China in 2005 and showed a great interest in music at a very early age. He began playing the piano when he was six, studying with William Zhou.
Saturday 30 August 1.10pm
Cynthia Elisa Garduño Meneses (Mexico City, 1993) is a double bassist and interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the exploration of the double bass as a contemporary sonic medium.
Friday 5 September 1.10pm
Rebekah Yinuo Tan was born in August 2006 in Shanghai. Inspired to become a concert pianist after hearing Chopin’s music in a live concert when she was 7 years old.
Wednesday 10 September 1.10pm
Born in 2002, Misha Kaploukhii is an alumnus of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music where he studied with Mikhail Egiazaryan.
Saturday 13 September 1.10pm
Formed in 2024, Trio Musae consists of young musicians from the Royal College of Music in London.
Monday 15 September 1.10pm
Joshua Harris is currently pursuing a Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music of Drama as a Guildhall Scholar, under the tutelage of Noriko Ogawa and Martin Roscoe.
Wednesday 17 September 1.10pm
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Nuno started taking piano lessons at the age of eight in Academia de Música de Lagos in Portugal with João Rosa.
Friday 19 September 1.10pm
Pianist Anson Tang has captivated audiences with his deeply emotional performances. Overcoming challenges related to his physical condition, he became a scholar under the Lee Hysan Foundation and graduated from the prestigious Royal College of Music in London in 2024.
