Macedonia Now at Wilton’s Music Hall-10th March 2013 This is the pre-concert talk which I gave before the concert: In 2005, I visited Skopje for the first time. In the 4 years previously, I had spent a considerable amount of time in the Balkans, ever more fascinated by the creative energy and contemporary [...]
March 26, 2012
Ansgar Beste & Peter Sheppard Skaerved Workshop Norwegian Music Academy – Oslo 26th March 2012 Extract 1-pizzicato (on Bartok, Biber, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Elgar, Glasounov. NB-note contribution from cellist Tanja Orning:Extract 2-battuto (on Finnissy, Lachenmann, guitarists, Crumb, chopsticks, thermometers, and knitting needles…): Link to another Workshop series. Nashville London Feb/Mar 2012
February 9, 2012
Beginning on the 26th February 2012 through March 9th, musicians from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University and the Royal Academy of Music met in workshops in Nashville and London, exploring collaboration. This is the page for that project as it continues to develop. LINKto the 2010 project. Final Workshop Performance 9th March-Concert Room [...]
December 10, 2011
Ligeti-2nd Quartet Kreutzer Quartet Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde 26th October 2010 London (Recording courtesy of Colin Still – Optic Nerve) 1st Movement-Allegro nervoso 2nd Movement-Molto sostenuto3rd Movement-Come un meccanismo di precisione 4th Movement-Presto Furioso-Brutale Tumultuoso5th Movement-Allegro con delicatezza
July 6, 2011
Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 – 30 March 1764)-Il laberinto armonico Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Live performance, Cyprus 2009) Live performance. Baltimore Old Episcopalian Church 4th April 2012 The full title of this work ‘il laberinto armonicao, facilius ingressus, difficilius exius’, bespeaks something way beyond mere musical process. I have been intrigued by it [...]
April 4, 2011
Two Days in Skopje (posted Monday March 28th) I am just about to leave Macedonia after two inspiring days at the Days of Macedonian Music (DMM) with the Kreutzers. We played three concerts (23 works) in two days, all of them surrounded by the treasures of the Archaeological Museum. It was a great chance for [...]
December 6, 2009
Transcription of investigative session on the del Gesu ‘Il Cannone’. Royal Academy of Music, Spring 2006# Paganini-A Major Prelude (Unpublished) Peter Sheppard Skaerved playing Il Cannone Gut strings, Paganini model bridge. 2006 London Peter Sheppard Skaerved working on ‘Il Cannone’ LINK to Paganini-Capriccio ‘non cor piu’-1820 (Magdeburg MS) version [Unedited transcript] As part of the [...]
November 30, 2009
Interview on Collaboration University or York Music Press 2008 The Kreutzer Quartet have commissioned countless (how many?) new works over the years they have been together – what is the motive for commissioning new works when the string quartet repertoire is already so rich? I think that it is worth beginning by saying [...]
November 6, 2009
Kreutzer Quartet at the Connect Festival, Malmo, Sweden. Pictures by Leif Johansson
March 11, 2013