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We offer daily services and a creative programme of talks, events and concerts. We seek to be a welcoming space for people to reflect, create and debate.
We are delighted to announce that from 6 Jan until early Apr 2025, work will take place to reinstate the church’s South Door onto Jermyn Street, part of Sir Christopher Wren’s original design.
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.
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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.
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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.
New walkways, a restored courtyard and re-landscaped gardens will provide fully accessible, beautiful spaces for everyone to enjoy as well as improving our environmental performance.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Fri 22 Nov 1.10pm
Hailed as “two exceptional young musicians” and praised for their remarkable “sensitivity, attention to details and great expressiveness”, CHESA is a London-based, emerging Viola and Piano Duo.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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.
Xin He (Viola) and Anjulie Chen (Piano)
Xin He (Viola) and Anjulie Chen (Piano) met at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2022 and started working together ever since. They have won second prize at the annual RAM Strings and Duo Competition in 2022 and receive coaching by Professor of Viola Martin Outram.
Besides that, they have had opportunities to play for other renowned musicians such as Amihai Grosz, Lawrence Power and Garth Knox.
CHESA is also known for a wide and diverse range of repertoire from the essential core pieces written for Viola and Piano to lesser known, transcribed works.
They both share the view that music not known very well does not mean a lack of quality, and therefore enjoy curating interesting, new and diverse programmes for Viola and Piano.
Fritz Kreisler: Adagio and Allegro
Paul Hindemith: Sonata op. 11/4
Johannes Brahms: Sonata op. 120/2
Presented in association with Royal Academy of Music
