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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Nigel Clarke: The Prophecies of Merlin
Peter Sheppard Skærved, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 23, 2023
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Henze: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Il Vitalino raddoppiato
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Longbow, Omar Ebrahim, Parnassus Ensemble of London, Hans Werner Henze
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on Mar 3, 2015
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Tartini: 30 Sonate piccole, Vol. 5
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on Aug 2, 2019
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Tartini: 30 Sonate piccole, Vol. 4
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on Sep 1, 2017
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 4
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on Jun 17, 2008
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The Great Violins, Vol. 3: Antonio Stradivari, 1685
Classical - Released by Athene on Mar 13, 2020
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Mozart: The Palatine Sonatas, K. 301-306
Daniel-Ben Pienaar, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Classical - Released by Athene on Apr 8, 2022
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The Violin in Modena
Classical - Released by Athene on Oct 14, 2022
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The Great Violins, Vol. 2: Niccolò Amati
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Athene on Jul 8, 2016
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Gregory Fritze: Spanish Meditations and Dances
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Divine Art on Apr 14, 2023
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Thomas Simaku: Works for Violin & Piano
Joseph Houston, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Chris Orton, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on Aug 9, 2019
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The Great Violins, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Athene on May 12, 2015
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The Great Violins, Vol. 4
Classical - Released by Athene on Mar 5, 2021
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Henze: Violin & Viola Works
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 8, 2018
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Edward Cowie: 3 Quartets & a Solo
Kreutzer Quartet, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on Apr 10, 2020
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Edward Cowie: Bird Portraits
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on Nov 12, 2021
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Gregory Rose: Orchestral Music
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Gregory Rose, Lizzie Gutteridge, Kevin Earley, Brendan Thomas
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on Mar 6, 2020
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Florish in the Key: The Solo Violin in London 1650-1700
Classical - Released by Athene on Sep 10, 2021
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Violin Concerto
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 1, 2004
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Sadie Harrison: Solos & Duos for Strings & Piano
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on Jul 3, 2015
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Tartini: 30 Sonate piccole for Solo Violin, Vol. 3
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on Jul 3, 2015
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