Kate Honey-‘Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light’-World Premiere Kettles Yard 27 4 14 Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Roderick Chadwick-Piano Working session with Roderick Chadwick and composer Kate Honey (Extract) 24 4 14 It’s always a great pleasure to come across a lovely new voice, and the music of Kate Honey is definitely that. We will […]
April 29, 2014
Jeremy Thurlow-‘Self Ablaze’Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Roderick Chadwick-Piano World Premiere-Kettles Yard Cambridge 27 4 14 It was Deedee and Elliott Schwartz who introduced me to Jeremy Thurlow-beginning a friendship and partnership which has now resulted in two wonderful pieces, ‘Ouija’ for violin and electronics, and ‘Self-Ablaze’, which Roderick Chadwick and I premiered yesterday at Kettles Yard. […]
April 28, 2014
Franco Donatoni-‘Ciglio III’ Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin, Roderick Chadwick-Piano Live at Kettles Yard-Cambridge April 27 2014 Donatoni-Ciglio (1994) (a performer’s perspective) ‘A performer familiar with Donatoni knows that elaboration, ornamentation, grace-notes, trills, mordents, appogiaturas, etcetera are the very stuff of his work. His music follows the architectural principles of decoration established by Alberti and his […]
April 28, 2014
Jeremy Dale Roberts-‘Capriccio’ (Live) Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Roderick Chadwick-Piano Kettles Yard 27 4 14 My collaboration with Jeremy Dale Roberts is one of the joys of my creative life. This is a the latest stage, working with him on his wonderful 1965 ‘Capriccio’. Linked to this: A lesson with Ralph Holmes The great British violinist, […]
April 28, 2014
Niccolo Castiglioni-Undici Danze per la bella Verena (1996) Peter Sheppard Skaervd-Violin (Amati 1628), Roderick Chadwick-PianoLive at Kettles Yard 27 4 14 Castiglioni’s ’11 dances’ are his last work, completed on 30th September 1996 just nine days before his death. Based on a simple, popuar them, they distill Castiglioni’s mature style. After the last dance, the […]
April 25, 2014
Working session with Roderick Chadwick and composer Kate Honey (Extract) 24 4 14 It’s always a great pleasure to come across a lovely new voice, and the music of Kate Honey is definitely that. We will premiere her ‘Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light’ on Sunday 27th April at Kettles Yard LINK This is […]
April 24, 2014
Jeremy Thurlow-‘Self-Ablaze’ The composer, with Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Roderick Chadwick, in rehearsal, London 24-4 14. This piece will be premiered at Kettles Yard, Cambridge, on the 27th April. This is the second major work which Jeremy Thurlow has written for Peter Sheppard Skaerved. For more information on the first project,’Ouija’, follow, the link. As […]
April 24, 2014
Richard Causton-Seven States of Rain (2003)Roderick Chadwick-Piano, Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Violin Live performance-27th April 2014 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Rehearsing for our 27th April Concert at Kettles Yard. LINK for details
April 23, 2014
Donatoni-Ciglio (1994) (a performer’s perspective) ‘A performer familiar with Donatoni knows that elaboration, ornamentation, grace-notes, trills, mordents, appogiaturas, etcetera are the very stuff of his work. His music follows the architectural principles of decoration established by Alberti and his school, rationalising what they saw, or thought they saw, in the buildings of ancient Greece […]
April 29, 2014