Peter Sheppard-Skærved | New Music for New College

Join internationally-renowned violinist Peter Sheppard-Skærved for a concert of ancient music and new works written for New College and its magnificent chapel. Peter will be performing music from 1620-1685 and contrasting this with new commissions from living composers Thomas Metcalf, Evis Sammoutis, Luke Lewis, and Robert Saxton.

This stimulating programme includes: 

Anon/Klagenfurt Manuscript (1685) - G Minor Suite (Scordatura GDAE) 

de Machy le Sieur (1685) - D minor Prelude, Courante & Double 

Biagio Marini (1620) - Capriccio (Imitation of a Lira)

Thomas Baltzar (1660)- Four Tunings (AEac#)

Thomas Metcalf (2025) – Mantra

Evis Sammoutis (2025) – Etude

Luke Lewis (2025) – unfeathering

Robert Saxton (2024) – Miniatures

This concert is free, but reserving a ticket is necessary to attend.

Peter Sheppard Skærved is acclaimed internationally for performances of a vast range of solo repertoire. His repertoire stretches from the late 16th century to hundreds of works written for him, ranging from established ‘greats’ such as Hans Werner Henze and George Rochberg, to the many young composers with whom he collaborates worldwide.  He is also the leader and founder of the renowned Kreutzer Quartet.

'Peter Sheppard Skaerved clearly responds to the music's communicative desires; it now has a conversational tone, now sings with the breathiness of a very human voice' New York Times

Peter is a Grammy-nominated recording artist, with over one hundred critically acclaimed albums to his name. These include concertos with orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the complete Tartini Solo Sonatas, Telemann Fantasies, Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert Sonatas, eight discs of solo works from the 1600s and many of the works dedicated to him.

Peter is performing, filming, and recording on great instruments in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, the Zagreb Arts and Crafts Museum and the Paganini violins kept at the City of Genoa. Peter is Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London,  and visiting Research Fellow of Goldsmiths, University of London.  He is ‘artist in residence’ at the Malmö Music Academy in Sweden.

Website: www.peter.sheppard.skaerved.com