Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tomorrow -glorious music by Tartini, Sadie Harrison Composer, Michael Alec Rose in ever astonishing St Mary Aldermary. Do join us for this intimate salon concert, and find out the connection between Tartini and the Mansion House...A Ask me .... 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On the overnight practice desk: Sadie Harrison's exquisite Tremenheere Herbarium (written for Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens) which will play next week at St Mary Aldermary - link here www.facebook.com/events/10815... 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Something lovely for your morning: here is the first chance to hear the fantastic Anna Wolstenholme playing David Hackbridge Johnson's exquisite Sarabande from his suite, with the Kreutzer gang. (and some gorse and heather in Cornwall a few days later!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpV...youtube.comA glimpse into the Studio -David Hackbridge Johnson‘Sarabande’YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 112
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Playing Tartini for Dante and Salviati www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvK...youtube.comTartini in Dialogue with Salviati ... and Dante ... in MinneapolisYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026On Friday I spoke about the beauty of Elisabeth Lutyens' music, and how well James Turrell's wonderful 'skyspace' illuminated it (at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens ) Here is an extract in rehearsal www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BD2...youtube.comCounterpoints : Lutyens meets TurrellYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLI... Here is a very lo-fi sneak peek into the recording studio yesterday. This is the fifth movement of David Hackbridge Johnson’s deliriously joyful suite for flute and string quartetyoutube.comA LOFI glimpse into the studio - recording David Hackbridge Johnson Suite for Flute QuintetYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 030
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Now why was it that I can't get excited about 'normal' concert venues... 021
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026More from 'A violin for Dante' - Bassano, with this week's glorious lunar eclipse 'And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee From time to time within the forest deep' Canto XX youtu.be/2xjUSuE6g3c?...youtu.bemoonYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Another of Evis Sammoutis's exquisite 'Nicosia Etudes' in the studio - with the manuscript - mercifully free of my scrawl! Follow along. youtu.be/Bs6onagtj8U?...youtu.beEvis Sammoutis - Nicosia Étude 5# 'κλεψύδρα' - Peter Sheppard SkærvedIn the StudioYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 020
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026More music for my 'A Violin for Dante' project for Minneapolis Institute of Art this month. Here's a new performance of Dafina Zeqiri Nushi's 'Sankta Catarina' which I played next to the Salviati tapestry in my concert at the museum a couple of weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTS...youtube.comA Violin for Dante at MIA Minneapolis - Dafina Zeqiri 'Sankta Catarina'YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The online version of 'A Violin for Dante', my collaboration with the wonderful Salviati tapestray Minneapolis Institute of Art, is growing. (Follow the link, for more music and ideas) www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/07/a-vi... 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Wonder on the overnight practice table on Liberty Street . I am reworking all 30-odd Helmich Roman ‘Assagi’ (for my project with Staffan Storm & Rolf Martinsson) & freshwater mussel (Megalonaias nervosa/Washboard Mussel) from the Saint Croix River 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026'A Violin for Dante' this evening Minneapolis Institute of Art with curators Rachel McGarray and Max Bryant & Michael Alec Rose - whose premiere was a triumph. Such a privilege - and grateful to Nigel Clarke and Dafina Zeqiri Nushi for their pieces also played Photos: Malene Sheppard Skaerved 021
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026engage.metmuseum.org/events/educa...engage.metmuseum.org 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026And, here is a raw take of Evis Sammoutis 6th Nicosia Etude, which I premied New College, Oxford last year Thanks to Adaq Khan for stellar engineering! youtu.be/JfxOpO3BTBk?... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026And now - first chance to hear Michael Alec Rose's radiant response to Francesco Salviati's tapestry depicting the meeting of Dante and Virgil. Minneapolis Institute of Art 'either a shade, or a human for sure?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEnw...youtube.comA Violin for Dante - 'Michael Alec Rose - ‘Od ombra, od omo certo’YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Sitting on the steps down to the water at flood tide 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026First listen - a single take of Evis Sammoutis extraordinary 7th Nivosia Etude 'Cinyras'. 4 levels of simutaneuous pizzicato - RH on both sides of the bride, LH on both sides of the stopping finger. Col Legno,breathing,bow hair 'wooshing'. I love this mysterious piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyhR...youtube.comEvis Sammoutis - Nicosia Etude 7 'Cinyras'YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026More emerging from my Dante project with Minneapolis Institute of Art . Wonderful Bassano - finding his, way, alongside Baldini's drawing of Canto 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmbx...youtube.comA Viola for DanteYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026On the overnight practice desk. More preparation for the Dante project (this time with a Guercino twist). A prelude by Alessandro Ruffo, John Hoole's 1783 translation of Tasso, and the layout for the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit. Read here www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/07/a-vi... 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My music for Minneapolis Institute of Art's Salviati tapestry of Dante continues to build. Here's some of the 'selva mesta' with Ortiz 'Clasulas' youtu.be/WOH0VTdiH8k?...youtu.beA Viola for Dante - Ortis - 2 ClasulasYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026First review! 'The performances are (unsurprisingly) jaw-droppingly fine, while the recorded sound perfectly captures the rich complex tones of both instruments: the outstanding booklet comprises twenty-two packed pages of fascinatingly arcane notes.' www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/2026/07/davi... 022
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026More from my emerging 'A Violin for Dante' project for Minneapolis Institute of Art. Here, my long-beloved Guercino and Tartini in conversation over three centuries with Torquato Tasso www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Tx... Thanks to Adaq Khan for the wonderful collaborationyoutube.comA violin for Dante: Tartini in conversation with Tasso and GuercinoYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026More from my Dante project for Minneapolis Institute of Art Some beloved De Machy www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsB...youtube.comDe Machy - Menuet & Double Responding to Dante & Salviati at Minneapolis Insitute of ArtsYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026More from this week of recording and exploration. The first of my responses to the Salviati tapestry of Dante & Virgil at Minneapolis Institute of Art . Thanks to Adaq Khan for the wonderful engineering. A much loved chaconne by Colombi www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeX...youtube.comA violin for Dante - Peter Sheppard Skaerved at MIAYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026On the overnight practice table, the ever-wonderful de Machy 'le Sieur'. Here a Chaconne from the 1685 set. I am convinced, that Bach owned/or had seen a copy of these 'Pièces de Violle'. Pièces de Violle youtu.be/hmD-gIygJdw?... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026On the overnight practice desk: Evis Sammoutis 'Nicosia Etude 6' which I premiered last year at New College Oxford, with pottery fragments from the nearby Thames today.Next week, we will be taking them into the studio! Here's our playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis... 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More of our filming Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - here's Jim Aitchison's 'Aperture' filmed by Immo Horn and directed by Malene Sheppard Skaerved www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYA...youtube.comJim Aitchison - ApertureYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It is Respighi's birthday! So a great opportunity to get to know THE great early-20th century sonata. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1uC...youtube.comFrom the archive.Respighi Sonata live in MunichYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Come to Cornwall for my September 4th performances at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - Tartini, Saxton, Paganini, It's a heavenly place. Book here www.tremenheere.co.uk/peter-sheppa... Here's some de Machy in the wonderful Turrell Skyspace which is one of 2venues www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Tw...youtube.comDemachy at TremenheeereYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It was wonderful George Rochberg's birthday on Sunday. He was/is a blazing inspiration and friend for us. Here's the live version of the complete violin concerto. So proud of this performance - red in tooth and claw, as he insisted it should be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_N...youtube.comGeorge Rochberg - Violin Concerto (original version) LIVEYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The beginning of – for me – a wonderful evening playing two concerts inspired by Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens - here in the Turrell Skyspace I played four groups of wonderful pieces by Sadie Harrison Composer plus Nicola Lefanu Tartini and Paganini 001
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Supper and conversation by the water and sunset last night in Newland, with Penelope, Chris, and Malene Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Something unreleased from 2023 - introducing a wonderful Hardanger violin at the Schubert Club Music Museum in St Paul Minnesota. youtu.be/oms0oSKrauwyoutu.be'Tomas Klukkulaaten efter Haugfolksom ringte Klukka paa Filefjeld'- Transcribed by Anders HeyerdahlYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026A wonderful day of exploration and conversation. Wonderful to have our dear friend and great composer Sadie Harrison Composer with us, on the next stage of our long journey of collaboration. www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/06/work... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Some of Richard Bram's lovely work documenting the rehearsal and conversations around last week's 'A breath of fresh air' concert celebrating Hogarth and the Burlingtons at St Nicholas Chiswick- Follow the link www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2026/06/rich... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It's the anniversay of the death of Carl Friedrich Abel, here in London in 1787. Here is one of his exquisite solo works on the oldest known American viola, made 30 years earlier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2R... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkyoutube.comKnowledge Exchange Violin at the Metropolitan Museum. Abel on a truly American Viola, 1757YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026My collaboration with dear friend Sadie Harrison stretches back over three decades. She has written so many wonderful pieces for me, and this one dates from 2016. This is a very rough glimpse of our rehearsal for last Thursday's performance at Goldsmiths www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqr7...youtube.comSadie Harrison 'An Amaranth from the Shade’ - a glimpse from the rehearsal roomYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's Edvard Grieg's birthday. Here's his glorious setting of Andersen 'The poet's heart'. On Ole Bull's Amati, with the great Roderick Chadwick Troldhaugen www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQwF...youtube.comEdvard Grieg on Ole Bull's 1647 Amati 'Perlen'YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Orlando di Lassus's birthday today. Here Nicola Lefanu responds to a Grinling Gibbons panel that has a Lassus motet carved into it www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOFw... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Today - playingwith Roderick Chadwick at Goldsmiths, University of London Here's a playlist of the collaborating composers that we are playing youtube.com/playlist?lis... Here's the event - 6pm and free! www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...gold.ac.ukPureGold presents: Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano)As part of the Department of Music's PureGold Festival, we are delighted to welcome back violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and pianist Roderick Chadwick to Deptford Town Hall. 011
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026It's Richard Strauss' birthday - so here's the piece that he wrote for his grandson's birthday - filmed in a hotel room at Middlebury at the beginning of Covid in 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcr...youtube.comRichard Strauss: "Daphne"-Etude in G op.82 (AV 141) (1945)YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's Delius' Birthday - here's his wonderful 'Lullaby for a Modern Baby' which I will always associate with Ralph Holmes. Here with Roderick Chadwick www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYEo...youtube.comFrederick Delius - Lullaby, for a modern babyYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026On the overnight practice desk, the glorious ending of David Hackbridge Johnson's 4th Sonata. Come and hear it on Thursday! with Roderick Chadwick Goldsmiths, University of London www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026So here it is: the first chance to hear Nigel Clarke's Bruegel cycle (book 1) in toto. The best way to do this (apart from seeing it live with the pictures!), is to put this on a big screen, so that you can explore the paintings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyF1...youtube.comNigel Clarke - Brueg(h)el’s BrushYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Nigel Clarke's massive response to Bruegel's 'Fall of the Rebel Angels'It's been amazing to develop these pieces with him, in situ (and so far) to perform them three times in terrifying/inspiring proximity to the paintings. Outtakes from last week's recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRn...youtube.comNigel Clarke - The Fall of the Rebel Angels after Pieter Bruegel the ElderYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The Gallerie Estensi Modena are talking to me about my obesssion w/ Colombi's Toccatas,each more than 500 bars.They might understood as part of the architecture of the Ducal palace,where he worked:an architrave or ,a fountain splashing in a courtyard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5yu...youtube.comGiuseppe Colombi ( 1635-1694) - Toccate (Ms. 16)YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5p... Hold onto your hats- here's the first chance to hear a movement from Gregory Fritze tremendous quartet, which we have been recording. More to follow, but we think this is pretty exciting!youtube.comIn the studio - a first glimpse of Gregory Fritze 1st QuartetYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 010
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Saturday on the path in the far west. Raven/Corvus Corax at Sancreed, and Sessile Oak/Quercus Petrae at Trevelloe 000
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Just a glimpse of what I have been doing today - Tartini (in Turrell), Paganini, Evis Sammoutis, Jim Aitchison, at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QRl...youtube.comTartini, Turrell, Tremenheere, Sheppard SkaervedYouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved 000
