Sadie Harrison & ‘The Flight of Swallows’ (workshop dialogue)
Sadie Harrison constantly astonishes me with the beauty of her imagination. Yesterday, (7th September 2012), my wife and returned from a day walking in the…
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Paganini’s Dog
Bristow Bow
A life companion-the bow I discovered when I was 16, and which has been my constant partner ever since.
MusicStands&Neudecker
David Matthews and Marius Skaerved
Cabbage White
Bridget MacRae
Rochberg Sonata
George Rochberg-Sonata Third Movement. PSS and Aaron Shorr-Piano Live Performance-Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 21st February 2004 Working…
28 12 2005 (b)
28 12 2005
Avec Michel-Ange 2006
S.Lorenzo
Brno
Richard Deacon
Skempton in Leipzig
1990
Rodolphe Kreutzer and the singing violin
Rodolphe Kreutzer-Concerto No 15 Kreutzer 15th Concerto (dedicated to Pierre Baillot-Adagio) Violin : Peter Sheppard Skærved Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia …
Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
Musicians and Patronage Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets Mozart’s last three string quartets are the direct result of the problematic relationship between musicians and patrons at the…
Collaborate
Collaborate! Friday 22 January 2.30–4.00pm Royal Academy of Music London NW15HT Piano Gallery The collaborating interpreter enjoys a dangerously liminal position between composer and audience,…
Berkeley, Ca.
Croquis
Graveyard-Skt. Petri Kirke
Swift in NYC 2003
Paganini – ‘Segreto (1823)
Paganini-Segreto 1823 (Bruck-Wurlitzer MS) FIRST RECORDING Peter Sheppard Skaerved-(Stradivari 1699) (Engineer Jonathan Haskell) In October 1823, Paganini sent Germi his ‘segreto A’. This was his…
Liburn Jupolli-Eta Carinae
In 2006 I met the strikingly gifted and alarmingly young composer and improviser, Liburn Jupolli, in Kosova. We worked together in considerable detail on his interest…