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Music and Poetry from the Burlingtons’ Chiswick Wednesday 4 November 2026 @ 07:00 PM – Booking Opens Soon! Chiswick House & GardensBurlington Lane, ChiswickLondon W4…

This is the slow movement of the concerto which the much-missed Peter Dickinson wrote for my boyhood teenager, the greatest of all English violinists. Ralph…

Celebrating Edwin Roxburgh – here is the premiere of his passionate, lyrical 2nd Quartet, which kicked off our day of joyful collaboration with the British…

On the overnight practice desk – rich harvest for tomorrow’s day of concerts and workshops with the Kreutzers and the BVMA Royal Academy of Music…

Pleased to be contacted by an ensemble for performing advice about much-missed Gloria Coates’s wonderful 2nd Quartet. In the decades we worked together Gloria and…

A conversation today with my old friend and collaborator, Jörg Widmann, so a great excuse to return to his wonderfful Étude 2…

Something 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,…

Peter Sheppard Skærved – violin ‘one of the finest living exponents of the violin’ Gramophone Magazine Friday 4th October 6pm St Mary Aldermary Church Watling…

On Friday September 4th, I returned to the far west of Cornwall for the last of this year’s troika of concerts in dialogue with wonderful…

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…

Another of Evis Sammoutis’s exquisite ‘Nicosia Etudes’ in the studio – with the manuscript – mercifully free of my scrawl! Follow along. This etude was…

More music for my ‘A Violin for Dante’ project for Minneapolis Institute of Art this month. Here’s a new performance of ‘s ‘Sankta Catarina’ which…

[in Preparation] My collaboration with the Metropolitan Musem in New York City is one of the most fruitful and inspiring in my work. Over recent…

It is midnight on the 6th August, and I am still glowing from the experience of playing in front of this great work of art.…

It is wonderful to be back in our MidWestern summer home, staying with my brother and sister-inlaw, Philip and AJ, by the Saint Croix river.…

Swedish composer Staffan Storm has just sent me his new suite for violin alone. This is the second piece that he has written for me.…

First listen – a single take of Evis Sammoutis extraordinary 7th Nivosia Etude ‘Cinyras’. 4 levels of simutaneuous pizzicato – RH on both sides of…

Nigel Clarke’s ‘Brueg[h]el’s Brush’ – a personal view Peter Sheppard Skaerved Towards the end of 2023, Nigel Clarke and I started talking about Pieter Bruegel…

First 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…

This project, my latest collaboration with the wonderful MIA Minneapolis Institute of Art, is a dialogue with the astonishing, 1546 Salviati tapestry of Dante &…

Here’s a first glimpse of what I have been doing in the studio in the past 24 hours. Here is the astonishing 25th movement of…

One of the most wonderful projects that I have been involved in over the last few years is my ‘deep dive’ into the medieval culture…

We filmed this in 2024, but this is the first time it has been released. Part of my ongoing collaboration with the wonderful Tremenheere Sculpture…

Percy Grainger – Room-music Tit-bits Nr.7 Arrival Platform Humlet Composed 1908. 1910, 1912. For Middle-fiddle single (viola solo) or massed middle-fiddles Last week I was…