Jana Andreevska

George Rochberg pictured

Working with George on ‘Caprice Variations’. Newtown Sq PA 2000

Priaulx Rainier

Priaulx Rainier-Fragment ‘Rhythms of the Stones’ 23-01-2006 20th July 1950 (Rainier observing Barbara Hepworth, with John Wells, Dennis Mitchell, at work in the Trewyn Studio, on Contrapuntal Forms]     ‘CONTRAPUNTAL FORMS’                    ‘Rhythms of the Stones’  BARBARA HEPWORTH                              Priaulx Rainier        Blue limestone. Carving Height 2.4m (7’ 9”) Glebelands housing area Owned by Harlow […]

Interview with University of York Music Press 2008

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 […]

David Gorton-Trajectories on YouTube

        David Gorton – Caprice No 4. Violin – Peter Sheppard Skaerved Live Recording (Courtesy of Colin Still, Opticnerve). 2009

Gloria Coates-Berceuse (from the Solo Sonata)

  I met Gloria Coates in Munich in 1991. From the moment that we met, I felt empathy: a conversation began which continues unabated. We have shared ideas over innumerable cups of coffee at the Lenbachhaus. There, the paintings of that most musical group of painters, the Blau Reiter, can be seen. Gloria Coates-Berceuse Engineer: […]

Duo with Aaron Shorr

Scattered thoughts on being a vagrant musician

Scattered thoughts on being a vagrant musician. or how I saw things in 2009, and still do… Aaron and I have just played George Rochberg’s entire violin and piano music in one go at the Arsenale as part of the Venice Biennale. I am absolutely shattered, my hands aching, my brain empty, and the inevitable […]

Kreutzer Quartet in Sweden 2009

Kreutzer Quartet at the Connect Festival, Malmo, Sweden 2009   Pictures by Leif Johansson