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
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 21 Sep 2010
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Schubert: Violin Sonatas
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Julian Perkins
Chamber Music - Released by Athene on 12 Jun 2020
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Clarke : Samurai - Black Fire
Classical - Released by Naxos on 20 Nov 2007
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Time Gallery (The) / Protean Fantasy / Ariel Fantasy
Eighth Blackbird, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Classical - Released by Naxos on 30 Jan 2006
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Edward Cowie: Streams and Particles
Classical - Released by Metier on 14 Oct 2022
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Mihailo Trandafilovski: Polychromy
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 11 Nov 2022
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Clarke: Music for 13 Solo Strings
Longbow, Sébastian Rousseau, Malene Sheppard Skærved, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on 2 Oct 2015
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Rochberg: Caprice Variations & Violin Sonata
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Classical - Released by Metier on 30 May 2011
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Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto
Classical - Released by Metier on 14 May 2021
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Concertos pour violon n°1 & n°3
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Aaron Shorr, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on 20 Jun 2006
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Roberts: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Roderick Chadwick, Bridget MacRae
Chamber Music - Released by Toccata Classics on 27 Apr 2018
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Star Preludes
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Tamami Honma, Christine Sohn
Classical - Released by Metier on 27 Nov 2001
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Mihailo Trandafilovski: Diptych
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Longbow, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 18 May 2018
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Chamber Music
Friedrich Gauwerky, Ian Pace, Peter Sheppard Skærved
Classical - Released by Albedo on 17 Mar 2003
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 5 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Chamber Music - Released by Métier on 2 Sep 2013
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David Matthews: Music for Violin, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on 19 May 2017
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Michael Alec Rose: Il ritorno – Works for Violin & Viola
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Diana Mathews
Classical - Released by Metier on 17 Nov 2017
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 3
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 6 May 2008
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Étude philharmonique
Classical - Released by Metier on 1 Apr 2013
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Beethoven Explored, Vol. 2
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Aaron Shorr
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 1 Jan 2003
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Pellay: Thesaurus of Violinistic Fiendishness, Books 1-7
Classical - Released by Metier on 20 Feb 2012
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