Sunday Service

St Michael’s is a unique church in the heart of the city. Unique for its relevant, contemporary preaching that embraces and inner wellbeing as its core message.

Sunday services include a mix of traditional and modern presentations interspersed with inspirational music performed by world-class musicians.

St Michael’s affirms and encourages the best expression of humanity, not only through the Sunday service but though our wellbeing programs and our commitment to counselling and psychotherapy. We believe faith, spirituality and a meaning to life are vital ingredients for our health and wellbeing and that there is a need to get hold of a more authentic religious understanding.

Sunday services commence at 10am.
Free Entry

Guest artist: Amir Farid (Piano)

Music between the readings: Moment Musicaux no. 1 D780 – Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert was extraordinary productive during his short lifespan of just 31 years. Along with his vast output of songs and several great symphonies, Schubert also wrote great deal of superb music for the piano.

Music during the offering: Armenian Rhapsody –  Javad Maroufi (1912-1993)
Javad Maroufi was born in Tehran (Iran) and studied western classical music alongside Persian classical music.  He became one of the first composers to write for the piano in the traditional Persian style.

The postlude: Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque – Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Debussy began writing his Suite bergamasque at age 28, though strangely it was not fully completed and published till he reached the age of 42 (1905).  It remains unclear exactly when much of this suite was written, though we do know that the title of this work, Clair de lune was originally Promenade Sentimentale. The suite draws it’s inspiration from the poetry of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896).

Artist Bio: Winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, pianist Amir Farid has been described as “a highly creative musician – a pianist of great intelligence and integrity. He brings strong musical substance to all that he does, imbuing it with his own particular experience and understanding”, and who “in a well-populated field…distinguishes himself for all the right reasons”. Throughout his career, Amir has been working and developing under the guidance of Professor Ronald Farren-Price, with whom he completed his Bachelor of Music (Hon) degree, and is currently undertaking a Master of Music degree at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. He also attended the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) where he studied with Rita Reichman, Geoffrey Tozer and Timothy Young. In 2009, he graduated with distinction as a Scholar supported by the Gordon Calway Stone Memorial Award at the Royal College of Music London, studying with Andrew Ball.

Along the way, Amir has participated in masterclasses and lessons with Michele Campanella, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Nikolai Demidenko, Christopher Elton, Gordon Fergus-Thompson, Cord Garben, Mark Gasser, Angela Hewitt, Ian Holtham, Leslie Howard, Julian Jacobson, Geoffrey Lancaster, Stephen McIntyre, Malcolm Martineau, Dominique Merlet, Hamish Milne, Lisa Moore, Ian Munro, Ruth Nye, Adrian Oetiker, Max Olding, Bart van Oort, Christina Ortiz, John Perry, Geoffrey Saba, Natasha Vlassenko, Frank Wibaut, Gerard Willems, Oxana Yablonskaya and John York.