An extraordinary experience: recording Martin Ellerby’s glorious cycle of solo works responding to the Ashmolean Museum
Jonathan Haskell doing great work in the engineer’s chair
Watch this space for the results! And note the precisesimplicity of recording solo violin-just years discussing sound!
Jonathan Haskell doing great work in the engineer’s chair
Watch this space for the results! And note the precisesimplicity of recording solo violin-just years discussing sound!
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
An extraordinary experience: recording Martin Ellerby’s glorious cycle of solo works responding to the Ashmolean Museum
Jonathan Haskell doing great work in the engineer’s chair
Watch this space for the results! And note the precisesimplicity of recording solo violin-just years discussing sound!
Jonathan Haskell doing great work in the engineer’s chair
Watch this space for the results! And note the precisesimplicity of recording solo violin-just years discussing sound!
On the overnight practice table – detailed technical work on extraordinary sonatas by David Hackbridge Johnson which Roderick Chadwick and I will record at the end of the month. +3 favourite East Anglian pebbles
Here is one of David beautiful pieces for solo Violin
youtu.be/CcAFz0yYUHE?...
Here is one of David beautiful pieces for solo Violin
youtu.be/CcAFz0yYUHE?...
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On the overnight practice table – detailed technical work on extraordinary sonatas by David Hackbridge Johnson which Roderick Chadwick and I will record at the end of the month. +3 favourite East Anglian pebbles
Here is one of David beautiful pieces for solo Violin
youtu.be/CcAFz0yYUHE?...
Here is one of David beautiful pieces for solo Violin
youtu.be/CcAFz0yYUHE?...
The end of an exciting evening - with our dear composers - David Matthews and Martin Ellerby, inviting Linda Merrick to the stage, after Schubert had thrown his thunderbolts (the G Major/minor Quartet!) - Beethoven had kicked things off
Lovely photo by Richard Bram
Lovely photo by Richard Bram
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The end of an exciting evening - with our dear composers - David Matthews and Martin Ellerby, inviting Linda Merrick to the stage, after Schubert had thrown his thunderbolts (the G Major/minor Quartet!) - Beethoven had kicked things off
Lovely photo by Richard Bram
Lovely photo by Richard Bram
Overnight work on Martin Ellerby's beautiful new 'A Viola on Orkney'. Listen below to his beautiful Sonata for piano and viola here (with Roderick Chadwick)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbD...
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Overnight work on Martin Ellerby's beautiful new 'A Viola on Orkney'. Listen below to his beautiful Sonata for piano and viola here (with Roderick Chadwick)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbD...
Delight: back with our dear friend, collaborator and inspiration- the wonderful artist Joanna Jones celebrating at her home in Dover
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Delight: back with our dear friend, collaborator and inspiration- the wonderful artist Joanna Jones celebrating at her home in Dover
Coming soon in The Strad. Some thoughts about teachers and more
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Coming soon in The Strad. Some thoughts about teachers and more
Saturday morning on the river
October 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Saturday morning on the river
In the middle of a conversation about Schubert with the great Toke Lund Christiansen, and thought I would share this - the most-read article on my rattlebag of a website.
www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2009/12/troc...
www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2009/12/troc...
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In the middle of a conversation about Schubert with the great Toke Lund Christiansen, and thought I would share this - the most-read article on my rattlebag of a website.
www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2009/12/troc...
www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com/2009/12/troc...
Rehearsal in one of my favourite haunts- before last night's evening of Robert Saxton, Telemann, T S Eliot, Guy Gallo, Siegfried Sassoon and H C Andersen
Photo Malene Sheppard Skaerved
Photo Malene Sheppard Skaerved
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Rehearsal in one of my favourite haunts- before last night's evening of Robert Saxton, Telemann, T S Eliot, Guy Gallo, Siegfried Sassoon and H C Andersen
Photo Malene Sheppard Skaerved
Photo Malene Sheppard Skaerved
Concert day calm
Coffee and boats
Coffee and boats
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Concert day calm
Coffee and boats
Coffee and boats
Day of wonder- exploring the wonderful new quartet written for us by the great Edwin Roxburgh
Watch this space!
Watch this space!
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Day of wonder- exploring the wonderful new quartet written for us by the great Edwin Roxburgh
Watch this space!
Watch this space!
Inspired by two great instruments, a wonderful space, two great composers, and a great friend - with Nicola LeFanu, Daniel Parker (x2), Mozart, and Morgan Goff at the end of an amazing day at the 12th century church of St Mary Iffley. Photos thanks to Malene Sheppard Skaerved & Gerald Garcia
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Inspired by two great instruments, a wonderful space, two great composers, and a great friend - with Nicola LeFanu, Daniel Parker (x2), Mozart, and Morgan Goff at the end of an amazing day at the 12th century church of St Mary Iffley. Photos thanks to Malene Sheppard Skaerved & Gerald Garcia
Etched: a stroll Wapping Waterloo Wapping to end the evening of conversation with Nigel Clarke
September 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Etched: a stroll Wapping Waterloo Wapping to end the evening of conversation with Nigel Clarke
Morning coffee in Wapping buy our river, with the Doggett's Coat and Badge, the oldest continuous rowing race in the world.
Every year on this river since 1715
But I’ve never seen so many boats, they rowed rowing past me on the flood tide for over an hour n
Every year on this river since 1715
But I’ve never seen so many boats, they rowed rowing past me on the flood tide for over an hour n
September 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Morning coffee in Wapping buy our river, with the Doggett's Coat and Badge, the oldest continuous rowing race in the world.
Every year on this river since 1715
But I’ve never seen so many boats, they rowed rowing past me on the flood tide for over an hour n
Every year on this river since 1715
But I’ve never seen so many boats, they rowed rowing past me on the flood tide for over an hour n
Today's celebration, on the workdesk - William Hogarth's 'Laughing Audience' ( an orginal 1733 copy). Come to this evening's celebration w/ Malene Sheppard Skaerved Julian Perkins
hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Today's celebration, on the workdesk - William Hogarth's 'Laughing Audience' ( an orginal 1733 copy). Come to this evening's celebration w/ Malene Sheppard Skaerved Julian Perkins
hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
A joyful and exciting day digging deep into glorious clarinet quintets by David Hackbridge Johnson and David Matthews with the gang -with Linda Merick, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde
September 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A joyful and exciting day digging deep into glorious clarinet quintets by David Hackbridge Johnson and David Matthews with the gang -with Linda Merick, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde
Doing my thing this evening at Royal Academy of Music
September 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Doing my thing this evening at Royal Academy of Music
Hogarth was obsessed with music, and had quite a dim view of violinists (his 'Enrag'd Musician' is probably Castrucci). Come along to Chiswick next week, to the church where he is buried, where Malene Sheppard Skaerved, Julian Perkins, and I will explore this, hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
September 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hogarth was obsessed with music, and had quite a dim view of violinists (his 'Enrag'd Musician' is probably Castrucci). Come along to Chiswick next week, to the church where he is buried, where Malene Sheppard Skaerved, Julian Perkins, and I will explore this, hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...
The composer arrives: David Matthews on the promenade at Penzance with Jenifer Wakelyn and Chris Mercer - Concert tomorrow Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v... @fabermusic.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The composer arrives: David Matthews on the promenade at Penzance with Jenifer Wakelyn and Chris Mercer - Concert tomorrow Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v... @fabermusic.bsky.social
First hint of something coming in two months...watch this space
September 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
First hint of something coming in two months...watch this space
On the overnight practice desk (with four Roman tesserae). The tiniest of the dozens of solo pieces that the great David Matthews has written me. Playing a brace of them next week at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens (Zoom in for the fascinating detail....)
www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v...
www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v...
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
On the overnight practice desk (with four Roman tesserae). The tiniest of the dozens of solo pieces that the great David Matthews has written me. Playing a brace of them next week at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens (Zoom in for the fascinating detail....)
www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v...
www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v...
A glorious afternoon working on the fantastic new Nicola leFanu duo and a heap of Mozart with my treasured colleague and friend Morgan Goff
August 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A glorious afternoon working on the fantastic new Nicola leFanu duo and a heap of Mozart with my treasured colleague and friend Morgan Goff
People watching: follow the link some of the past couple of months' crop from the alphabet of humanity www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com?p=31470
August 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
People watching: follow the link some of the past couple of months' crop from the alphabet of humanity www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com?p=31470
On the overnight practice desk, here in Manhattan. Two more miniatures by Nigel Clarke - his wonderfulf BreugelBrueghel series continues to bloom
August 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
On the overnight practice desk, here in Manhattan. Two more miniatures by Nigel Clarke - his wonderfulf BreugelBrueghel series continues to bloom
An extraordinary afternoon on and in the water on Chesapeake Bay- and my sight of Thomas Poin Shoal Lighthouse - built in 1875 at the mouth of the South River in the Chesapeake Bay
August 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
An extraordinary afternoon on and in the water on Chesapeake Bay- and my sight of Thomas Poin Shoal Lighthouse - built in 1875 at the mouth of the South River in the Chesapeake Bay