David Matthews-Sonatina Op 8 (1974-1978) Workshop recording: July 2011 (St Paul MN) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Although I have worked with David Matthews for many years, premiered large numbers of solo violin works by him, and recorded all of it (I thought), this work was unknown to me. I ran across it at Travis & Emery […]
July 27, 2011
Carl Nielsen and 358 Danske Folkedansemelodier (Bind 1) I am fascinated by the link between the late Nielsen sound and the music of the Danish Soil, the tradition of the ‘Spillemaend’, which, I believe, underpins all his music, but most particularly the late instrumental revelations. So there is only one thing to do, to […]
July 25, 2011
Sadie Harrison – Ballare un passacaglia di ombre (August 2011) World premiere performance. Nashville, 19 9 11 Notes from E mails-towards a piece: 6th June 2011-Inspiration for the solo pieces: E-mail workshop-with sketches-begun 24th July 2011 Sadie Harrison is a visionary, whose music marries extraordinary rhythmic poise with a jeweller’s eye for light. Yesterday (July […]
July 23, 2011
Paul Pellay-Fjord – Flamm Remembered – Flecks (Live) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Morgan Goff-Neil Heyde (Live) South London Gallery, London 2010 Camera-Colin Still (Optic Nerve) Sound- Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds)
July 23, 2011
These pictures were taken during a series of workshops which Nigel Clarke and I gave in Pristina in 2007 . Typically, we like to work from a ‘no score basis’ beginning with listening exercises and gradually moving towards notation and agreed structures. When working with musicians who have not played so much new music, it […]
July 23, 2011
July 22, 2011
Trandafilovski-Star Factory Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde) 22-4-2010 Michael Tippett Centre, Bath. This extraordinary piece was written for the project ‘South London Walks’ which Mihailo curated at the South London Gallery in 2010. He has been very open about the benefits of composing from ‘within the ensemble’-as a composer […]
July 19, 2011
Yigit Kolat-The Rite (Ayin) 2003 Live Performance-Ankara 2003 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Aaron Shorr-Piano This performance was an unsuspected on. I had just completed a week of workshops in Ankara, working with Sidika Ozdil, Aaron Shorr, and Nigel Clarke. It had been very intense, with a new ensemble, and with a clutch of enthusiastic composers offering […]
July 19, 2011
Sibelius- Evening in the Spring Op 117 (1929) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Solo Violin/director I Solisti di Zagreb Lisinski Great Hall. 11th May 2002 I was introduced to Sibelius’s miniatures for violin and orchestra when I was a teenager, by my teacher and friend, Ralph Holmes. He recorded a pioneering disc of these works with the RIAS […]
July 19, 2011
David Matthews-Adagio (Live performance in Zagreb 2002) Zagreb Soloists (Guest Director – Peter Sheppard Skaerved) Lisinski Great Hall, Zagreb (11th May 2002) This Adagio was written as memorial to the writer Peter Fuller. It later would form the basis of the slow movement of David’s 6th Quartet, which we have played many times. I have […]
July 27, 2011