Peter Sheppard Skærved
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skӕrved is unusually committed to contemporary music: he has been the dedicatee of more than 400 works. His repertory is broad, however, dating back to the Baroque era, and he is noted as a performer on historical violins.
Sheppard Skӕrved was born Peter Sheppard in 1966; he is married to author Malene Skærved and took the surname Sheppard Skærved. "I have a clear memory of a freezing walk home from school when I was 12 or so, and deciding that there certain extremely ambitious things which I wanted to do with music," he told The Cross-Eyed Pianist. By his late teens, he was already forging collaborations with important composers, including Hans Werner Henze. The list of composers with whom Sheppard Skӕrved has worked is quite long and includes many prominent names, such as George Rochberg, Judith Weir, and Michael Finnissy. An ongoing collaboration has been that with composer Thomas Simaku, with whom he has worked for stretches extending over a decade. Sheppard Skӕrved is an enthusiastic chamber player who founded and leads the Kreutzer Quartet; he has also performed with Ensemble Triolog and plays duos with pianists Aaron Shorr and Jan-Philip Schulze and fortepianist Julian Perkins, among others. Despite his focus on contemporary music, Sheppard Skӕrved has a large repertory extending back to the Baroque era, and he plays music from that period on a 1698 Stradivarius violin that was formerly owned by Joseph Joachim. He has also recorded on violins by Nicolò Amati and Andrea Amati. In the U.S., he has given recitals at the Library of Congress in Washington on violins drawn from that institution's collection.
With more than 70 recordings to his credit, Sheppard Skӕrved is one of Britain's more prolific recording artists. He has recorded for Metier, Toccata Classics, Naxos, and other labels, with his recorded repertory matching the diversity of the music he performs. In 2020, Sheppard Skӕrved released, with Julian Perkins, an album of Schubert's three sonatas for violin and piano of 1816 on the Athene label. Sheppard Skӕrved is a lecturer in performance and a fellow at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Quatuor à cordes n°9
Kreutzer Quartet, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Roderick Chadwick
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 21.09.2010
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Schubert: Violin Sonatas
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Julian Perkins
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Athene am 12.06.2020
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Clarke : Samurai - Black Fire
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 20.11.2007
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Time Gallery (The) / Protean Fantasy / Ariel Fantasy
Eighth Blackbird, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 30.01.2006
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Edward Cowie: Streams and Particles
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 14.10.2022
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Mihailo Trandafilovski: Polychromy
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Metier am 11.11.2022
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Clarke: Music for 13 Solo Strings
Longbow, Sébastian Rousseau, Malene Sheppard Skærved, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Klassik - Erschienen bei Toccata Classics am 02.10.2015
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Rochberg: Caprice Variations & Violin Sonata
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 30.05.2011
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Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 14.05.2021
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Concertos pour violon n°1 & n°3
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Aaron Shorr, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 20.06.2006
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Roberts: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Roderick Chadwick, Bridget MacRae
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Toccata Classics am 27.04.2018
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Star Preludes
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Tamami Honma, Christine Sohn
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 27.11.2001
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Mihailo Trandafilovski: Diptych
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Longbow, Roderick Chadwick
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Metier am 18.05.2018
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Chamber Music
Friedrich Gauwerky, Ian Pace, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Klassik - Erschienen bei Albedo am 17.03.2003
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 5 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Métier am 02.09.2013
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David Matthews: Music for Violin, Vol. 2
Klassik - Erschienen bei Toccata Classics am 19.05.2017
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Michael Alec Rose: Il ritorno – Works for Violin & Viola
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Diana Mathews
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 17.11.2017
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 3
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Metier am 06.05.2008
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Étude philharmonique
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 01.04.2013
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 2
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Metier am 01.01.2003
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Pellay: Thesaurus of Violinistic Fiendishness, Books 1-7
Klassik - Erschienen bei Metier am 20.02.2012
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