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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
From Sun 6 to 27 April
Breastplate will be displayed behind the altar of the Side Chapel and lit from below so that it glows from within, thereby revealing its feather-filled fragility and the talismanic contents of its pockets.
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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Saturday 17 May 1.10pm
Hope Cramsie is a versatile classical guitarist based in London. Her performances showcase a diverse repertoire ranging from renditions of Renaissance music to the premiering of brand new works, and highlight the lyricism and sensitivity of her instrument.
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
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Preludium
The Frog Galliard
Fantasia No. 7
Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580)
Fantasía que contraze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico
Miguel Llobet (1878-1938)
3 Catalan Folk Songs
El testament d’Amelia
El mestre
Canco del lladre
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sarabande for guitar
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Guitare
Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
Suite Compostelana
III. Cuna
Laura Snowden (b. 1989)
This Changing Sky
Golfam Khayam (b. 1983)
Thousand Mirrors
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne No. 2 (arr. Miguel Llobet)
Augustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944)
Un Sueño en la Floresta
St James’s is grateful for the generous support of Rolex for this music programme.
Fast establishing herself as an up and coming performer, Hope has featured regularly in the International Guitar Foundation’s Young Artist Platform concert series, which included a performance at Kings Place during the London Guitar Festival in 2021. She had performed at numerous concert venues including the National Portrait Gallery, Brussels Guitar Laboratory Festival, Klara Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, as well as appearing regularly in the RCM’s recital series and concerts.
As an active chamber musician, Hope is one half in the newly formed Vona Guitar Duo, an ensemble championing new music by female composers, and is a member of NYGE’s flagship Fellowship Ensemble.
In 2021, Hope was awarded First Prize at Leicester Music Festival’s Advanced Guitar Competition. She is also a Young Artist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians after receiving First Prize at the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award in 2023.
After graduating from the undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours, part of which included an Erasmus exchange at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with Jesper Sivebæk, Hope completed her masters with Distinction at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with Antigoni Goni and Xavier Diaz Latorre.
Hope is now pursuing an Artist Diploma in guitar at the RCM with Gary Ryan and Chris Stell and theorbo with Jakob Lindberg, supported by the Elmley Foundation, and as anRCM Ian Evans Lombe scholar, Help Musicians Postgraduate Award holder and JulianBream Trust Scholar.
Presented in association with Royal College of Music
