MORE ON THE KREUTZER QUARTET AT ALDEBURGH here LINK Visit Tim Rutherford-Johnson’s website HERE The Kreutzer Quartet’s first violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved talks to me…
The Kreutzer Quartet has just completed an intense three-day residency at the Aldeburgh Festival. We played the last quartets of Mozart and Haydn, Priaulx…
It is Roger Redgate’s birthday! Hurray! If you are a violinist, take the challenge of the caprices! If you are a composer, do the same!…
Mihailo Trandafilovski has just sent me this page, which he notes, is the ‘ecstatic culmination’ of his new solo work based on the wonderful art…
A week of enchantment -at GAIA 2023 Musikfestival am Thunersee, in Thun und Bern I’m not someone who is naturally drawn to festival-style music-making. I…
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This piece has ;ong been close to the Kreutzer Quartet’s heartfor years, but we have never recorded it. Who wrote it, and when?If you are…
Celebrating the imminent release of Nigel Clarke’ extraordinary symphony for orchestra ‘the Prophecies of Merlin’- on which we collaborated across lockdown -and then brought to…
We are just about to release Martin Ellerby’s tremendous, and I mean, tremendous, Viola Sonata. Here it is, in unedited (lockdown) session outtakes, with the…
UPDATED!!! 15 10 23 I have been friends with the marvellous composer Robert Saxton for many years. This began in my early twenties,…
Unbelievably excited about this piece, which I have been discussing with the composer for nearly 6 years. Here’s just a glimpse behind the workshop door…
I am just finishing four days of intense collaboration with composers at Ithaca College, New York. After really fascinating workshops I premiered 11 wonderful new…
As a musician, collaboration, for me, is key to everything. I have been honoured to work with Martin Ellerby for many years; his extraordinary music…
Detailed work on David Matthews’ wonderful 17th quartet, the latest of many pieces he has dedicated to us. And a stone tool from my inspiring…
I spent this morning with Jeremy Thurlow’s exquisite reponse to the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi. Hammershøi is a hero around here, and Malene Sheppard Skaerved…
So pleased to share this, today, on the day when it was announced that this wonderful orchestra’s future is assured! It was a joy to…
Yes! We performed all of these wonderful instruments in one concert! With Neil Heyde. Clifton Harrison, Mihailo Trandafilovski at the British Violin Makers Day at…
A great afternoon with young musicians at the Royal Northern College of music here in Manchester, where I was appointed Honorary Professor last year. Over…
First chance to hear Marc Yeats epic work for violin alone. Live lats week at the George Moore Theatre at Goldsmiths. Hold on to your…
A couple of my dear friend Richard Bram’s great photos of the concert concert. Discover Richard’s wonderful work – he’s one of the great photographers,…
Yesterday morning, I recorded Edward Cowie’s fantastic ‘Menurida Variants’. Here is a single take, and images from the walk to and from the studio in…
A sneak peak, at what we have been up to, at the Ashmolean Museum, where we spent a glorious day filming and recording on the unbelievable…