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: Zoe Wallace (Cello)

Music between the readings: The Swan – Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
This well known and enduring favourite comes from Saint-Saëns larger work The Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux).  Composed in 1886, this suite of 14 movements was originally intended as a piece of fun, each movement depicting an animal.

Music during the offering: Largo from the Sonata for Cello & Piano – Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810-1849)
Chopin’s Cello Sonata (1845-46) dates from the troubled final years of his life; it was in fact his last published work. Chopin wrote little music for instruments other than piano, but he appears to have had a special fondness for the cello, for he wrote three different works for cello and piano.

The Postlude: Toccata from the  5th Organ Symphony Op. 42 No. 1 – Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
A very well known and often played work – this piece is a favourite of many.  The manager of music is often asked when he will play it again, and keeping with the other two works both written in France at about the same time as this piece – well…today is the day.

Artist Bio: Zoe Wallace is a freelance cellist living in Melbourne and performs regularly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. Zoe has toured extensively with Oz Opera and Co-Opera and has performed with the Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmanian and Darwin Symphony Orchestras and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Zoe has recently attended the Banff Winter Music Residency, the St Lawrence String Quartet Seminars in San Francisco and the Mt Buller Chamber Music Summer school. In 2012, she became a founding member of the Kharites trio and will performed a concert tour in Tasmania with the ensemble in 2013.

Zoe completed her studies at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2010, where she was a full scholarship holder and received tuition from Howard Penny and Nicholas Bochner. Prior to that, Zoe completed a bachelor degree with high distinction at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen, The Netherlands. During her four years in The Netherlands, Zoe played with the North Netherlands Orchestra, Camerata Ardesko and the Alinga Duo and received a scholarship from the Makarov Foundation for the duration of her studies. She received cello tuition from Jan-Ype Nota and Michel Strauss. Prior to that, Zoe studied with Janis Laurs in Adelaide and Christian Wojtowizc in Hobart, and was awarded a Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.