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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.
Come and celebrate the hope and light that Christmas brings each winter
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. This is a place for everyone who’s wondering about life’s big questions and striving for a better world.
We host a year-round creative programme encompassing music, visual art and spoken word, drawing on St James’s rich cultural history including artists, writers and musicians Mary Beale, Mary Delany, William Blake, Ottobah Cugoano and Leopold Stokowski.
We try to put our faith into action by educating ourselves and speaking out on issues of injustice, especially concerning refugees, asylum, earth and racial justice, and LGBTQ+ issues.
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.
It costs us £3,500 per day to enable us to keep our doors open to all who need us
Your donation will help us restore our garden in Piccadilly as part of The Wren Project, making it possible for us to welcome over 300,000 people from all faiths and walks of life seeking tranquillity and inspiration each year.
St James's Church 197 Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
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Friday 28 June 1.10pm
Tobias Hume – First part of ayres; “harke, harke!”
John Dowland – “Can she excuse my wrongs?” & “King of Denmark’s gaillard”
Traditional – Scottish dance
Robert Johnson – “Oh, let us howl” Bohuslav Martinu – Nocturnes for cello & piano, h.189 (1930) ii. lento Max Reger – Suite for solo cello no. 3 in a minor, op. 131c no. 3: i. präludium. sostenuto Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, book 5, suite in e minor: xvii. « le tableau de l’opération de la taille » Sergei Rachmaninoff – op. 34: xiv. “vocalise”
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.
As a devout chamber musician and soloist, Ozgur Kaya plays a Giovanni Battista Gabrielli cello kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor. Born in Ankara, Ozgur joined the Bilkent University Music Faculty in 2017, where along with his cello education he also studied composition with Ulkemin Akbas and participated in classes of renown composers such as Bruno Mantovani and Mark Andre. Followed by continuing his cello studies at The Yehudi Menuhin School.
He has had the chance to collaborate with musicians such as Colin Carr, Robert Levin and the Endellion & the Fitzwilliam Quartets.
He has performed alongside artists such as John Williams, Charles Owen, Ashley Wass and Viktor Tretiakov.
He has been studying cello at the Royal College of Music in London, with Alexander Chaushian since 2021, as the Amaryllis Fleming Scholar and viola da gamba with Reiko Ichise as the “Parnassus Scholar”, ISH Award holder, also supported by the Talent Unlimited Foundation.
Presented in association with Talent Unlimited