Michael Slayton (Blair) Composer As we prepare to embark again on this wonderful journey together, my overall hope for the exchange remains steadfast: that we will all come away richer – with new motivations, new ways of thinking about music and music-making, united in our efforts to ensure that collaboration amongst artists (which is [...]
February 7, 2012
February 7th 2012 This is the beginning of an exciting project which I am doing with the composer Jeremy Thurlow at Cambridge University, and Dr Mark Doffman at the University of Oxford. Research Project: Creative Practice in Contemporary Concert Music Jeremy Thurlow is writing new works for me, and the collaborative process will be documented in [...]
December 22, 2011
Paganini at the Library of Congress A word of explanation. I am deepening my interaction with the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington. This will have a particular focus on the Paganini holdings-both instruments and documents, in the collection. As this builds, I will use objects in the collection to look at ideas [...]
December 8, 2011
Music for the Enlightenment Gallery Live at the British Museum May 27th 2006 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Stradivari 1709 ‘Viotti’ Giovanni Battista Viotti-Ranz des Vaches 1792 Giovanni Battista Viotti-Suonata ? Jean Hasse-Collections Considered (World Premiere) Lars Bagger-Chorale plus Pythagoras (World Premiere) Dmitri Smirnov-Amore Sola…(World Premiere) plus Erasmus Darwin Jim Aitchison-Dance Reflection (Original version) World Premiere plus Addison Michael [...]
October 22, 2011
Revolution LINK to Viotti in Washington The French revolution depended on music, and musicians, to spread its message, like no political movement before. For hundreds of years, the Church had relied on music for its propagandising; choir schools had trained generations of young singers and instrumentalists. With the early Revolution, the Church and the officer [...]
October 22, 2011
Viotti & the Revolutionary Violin in Washington Lecture Recital given at the Library of Congress- May 9th 2009 Peter Sheppard Skaerved playing Violins by Stradivari (Castelbarco, Betts), del Gesu (Kreisler), & W E Hill and Sons Click on the ‘play’ arrows to hear the lecture recital in sequence, or the highlighted links in the boxes for related [...]
October 7, 2011
Kreutzer Quartet at Malmö CONNECT Festival 2011 (In preparation)
September 19, 2011
Dances from Møn Work on the ’358 Danske Folkdansemelodier’ continues, here in Nashville . Here are dances from Møn. 198. Dronningedans (Moen) 199. Prinsesens Polka (Moen) 200. Skraedderns Hopsa (Moen) 201. Bumpe-Skotsk (Moen) 202 Sekstur (Moen) 203. Firspring.(Moen) Go to THE FOG IS LIFTING for the whole project
September 6, 2011
Paganini and Ketch Secor at the Hollywood Bowl I am fascinated by the legacy of Paganini’s posture, depicted again and again, with enormous consistency by Landseer, Maclise, Ingres, Delacroix, Edouart and many others, not to mention countless contemporary caricatures. In 2006 a George Grosz drawing A Paganini of the Gutter came up for sale at [...]
July 27, 2011
Carl Nielsen and 358 Danske Folkedansemelodier (Bind 1) A word of explanation. I am collaborating with Anders Beyer in Copenhagen on a Nielsen festival which will be held at Elsinore in the 2012. I am fascinated by the link between the late Nielsen sound and the music of the Danish [...]
February 9, 2012