Working with Paganini’s ‘Secret Red Book’-Library of Congress, Washington DC NEWS-the Library of Congress film of my work with the ‘Red Book’ will go ‘live’ next week! Soundbox-The Red Book at the Royal Academy of Music Tuesday 25th September. Museum of the Royal Academy of Music 1230 (Admission Free) This is the first research event […]
June 23, 2012
Elliott Schwartz-Chamber Concerto VI: Jefferson Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin American Composers Alliance Orchestra – Conductor Oliver Hagen Live Recording – Symphony Space, New York City June 2012 Film-Elliott Schwartz introduces the concerto… Jefferson:The Inventor and The Violin (Movements 1 and 2 Thomas Jefferson was a lifelong musical enthusiast. He was a […]
June 21, 2012
Paganini in Washington. A long term collaboration with the collections of the Library of Congress-Washington A word of explanation. I am deepening my interaction with the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington. This will have a particular focus on the Paganini holdings-both instruments and documents, in the collection. As this builds, I […]
June 14, 2012
Dickens and Joachim, a ‘Freak’ on the Violin (Text of talk given on 14th June 2012) ‘Music has become a pleasure, which, like the Plague of Egypt, pervades our kings’ chambers and our working men’s houses-a freak on or about the violin family… and the music prepared for the same, may not be altogether […]
June 14, 2012
Horniman Museum Project (reporting back 14th June) The 13th June saw the beginning of a new collaboration with the Horniman Museum. Peter has been with them for nearly a year on bringing his research/performance into the work of Joseph Joachim into dialogue with their musical instrument collection, and last night’s packed concert/talk, linked to the […]
June 10, 2012
David Matthews-Birthday Piece for Richard June 2012 Peter Sheppard Skaerved (Workshop recording-Baroque violin and bow, June 10th, Wapping) The premiere of Mihailo Trandafilovski’s Diptych dedicated to Richard Bram on his 60th birthday was very well attended by composers, including John McCabe, David Gorton and David Matthews. Richard was delighted that David had made him a […]
June 9, 2012
The Lost Sessions March 2003 In March 2003 Peter Sheppard Skaerved recorded works written for him by Widmann, Gomelskaya, Clarke, Simaku, and others in a recording session that was never released. At the time, these were all first recordings. Here are some unedited outtakes. Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin (Stradivari 1699 ‘Crespi’) Engineer-David Lefeber Jörg Widmann-Etudes 1 & […]
June 8, 2012
On the 8th June, a wonderful morning in the company of two great violas by Andrea Guarneri. The brief visit of the ‘ex- Primose’ 1697 Andrea Guarneri viola to the workshop at the RAM, meant that it could meet up with its brother from the workbench, the Academy’s own Andrea Guarneri. Having grown up […]
June 7, 2012
Elliott Schwartz – ‘Water Music (Posted 20th September 2012) The Kreutzers (Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski & Morgan Goff) with friends: Rachel Meerloo, Val Wellbanks, Diana Mathews, Aisha Orazbayeva, Midori Komachi, , Alice Barron, Steven Crichlow, Annabelle Berthomé Reynolds/ Engineer-Jonathan Haskell (Astounding Sounds) The secret of collaging….Elliott Schwartz at Work Elliott once told me […]
June 27, 2012