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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.
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Monday 20 October 1.10pm
Elisabeth Tsai was born into a musical family and began playing the cello at the age of four, switching to the piano at age seven.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
Support our Creative Programme
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
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St James’s is grateful for the generous support of Rolex for this music programme.
Artist bio
Elisabeth received a bachelor’s from the Schwob School of Music and master’s degrees from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Boris Berman and Boris Slutsky. She is currently studying with Ronan O’Hora as an artist diploma candidate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has given solo and concerto performances around the US, Germany, Italy, the UK and the Netherlands. An active chamber musician, she was a Fellow at the 2024 Norfolk/Yale Chamber Music Festival and was invited to the Smithsonian Chamber Society in 2023 to perform Beethoven piano trios on historical instruments. Elisabeth has been privileged to play to artists such as Peter Serkin, Richard Goode, Robert Levin, Imogen Cooper, Paul Lewis, and Till Fellner and is currently working towards learning and performing the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas. Elisabeth is passionate about music education as well as performance. She previously held a Teaching Artist position at Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT and taught at Through the Staff’s online music education program.
