A Breath of Fresh Air
‘A Breath of Fresh Air!’, St Nicholas Church, Chiswick, Thursday 18th June 2026 Presented by The Friends of St Nicholas’ Church and Hogarth’s House Youtube…
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Celebrating Grieg’s birthday!
It’s Edvard Grieg’s birthday. Here’s his glorious setting of Andersen ‘The poet’s heart’. On Ole Bull’s Amati, with the great Roderick Chadwick
Jacob Stainer 1660 viola at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City
The Metropolitan Museum in New York City has just posted this recording of Thomas Baltzar (1630-1663) made on their great 1660 Jacob Stainer viola. LINK
Delius – ‘Lullaby for a Modern Baby’ for his birthday!
It’s Delius’ Birthday – here’s his wonderful ‘Lullaby for a Modern Baby’ which I will always associate with Ralph Holmes. Here with Roderick Chadwick
Fall of the Rebel Angels
First chance to hear Nigel Clarke’s cataclysmic viola response to Bruegel’s ‘Fall of the Rebel Angels’ To hear the whole set, click here: Brueg[h]el’s Brush
Talking about ‘Zwischen Leben und Tod’
My interview with The Strad Magazine about my work with composer Michael Hersch, and our new release of his monumental work for piano and violin…
Celebrating Carl Nielsen’s Birthday
The greatest Danish composer was born on this day in 1865. Here is his wonderful little piece. ‘The Children are Playing’
Celebrating Collaboration
PureGold presents: Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin), Roderick Chadwick (piano) 11 Jun 2026, 6:00pm – 7:15pm Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall Building Programme:Olivier Messiaen – Thème…
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Please excuse the generic post: here is the link to my strange little YouTube channel. Over 600 things to hear and see there, grouped into…
Robert Saxton Miniatures
First chance to hear. Robert Saxton miniatures, live in Sweden
Bruegel in Sweden
Next week Nigel Clarke and I return to Fine Arts Belgium for the second performance of his response to the extraordinary Bruegel paintings in the…
Music for the landscape – A glimpse of new music for a Cornish Paradise
Next month, my trio of performance days at wonderful Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens begins.There will be new works from Evis Sammoutis, Robert Saxton, and Sadie Harrison…
Playing the premiere of Nigel Clarke’s ‘Brueg[h]el’s Brush’ at the Fine Arts Museum
Michael Hersch in the Studio – Kreutzer Quartet at work
A glimpse of what we have been doing this week – one of the 13 movements of Michael Hersch’s ‘Images from a closed ward’. With…
A Cornish Herbarium emerges!
The opening of one of Sadie Harrison’s exquisite Cornish plants for her Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Herbarium, which I will premiere there on May 8th. More…
Celebrating G F Handel
It’s Handel’s birthday- so he is 341 years and 1 day old. In 1985, much-missed Dmitri Smirnov celebrated his 300th, with this extraordinary piece (based…
Inspiration on the overnight practice table
A masterpiece from Jolivet (the ‘Suite Rhapsodique’) and the Joachim Quartet (a daily memo to do better, work harder, dig deeper). Here are two movements…
First chance to hear – an extraordinary quartet in the studio
Here it is … session outtakes of David Hackbridge Johnson’s 7th Quartet, in the studio at the beginning of the week. With Neil Heyde, Morgan…
Upcoming Michael Hersch Release.
Michael Hersch and I have spent the weekend working on the programme book materials for our upcoming release of his epochal ‘Zwischen Leben und Tod’…
Dialogues between old and new.
First chance to see – ‘Dialogues’, the performance that Evis Sammoutis and I presented, with his music and 17th century miniatures, in Grenoble.
Happy New Year – return to the recording studio with wonderful duos!
Here’s what we were up to yesterday: unedited outtakes from Gregory Fritze’s marvellous Three Duos, with Morgan Goff With some pictures from the path across…
On the Road – a violin with ideas
15th December 2025 – St Paul Minnesota – 5 am It’s 5 am and I am sitting at my desk-for-the-day, on the 13th flower, downtown…
First chance to hear – Divisions on a mysterious prelude
David Hackbridge Johnson’s divisions on a mysterious prelude by ‘Mr Simons’ – the violin tuned to FDae (a new scordatura for me – and I…
The end of the concert – Beethoven, Schubert, Matthews, Ellerby at St Johns
The end of an exciting evening – with our dear composers – David Matthews and Martin Ellerby, inviting Linda Merrick to the stage, after Schubert…
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‘ …this is violin playing of the highest level. Sheppard Skaerved has dedicated his life to the violin music of our time, inspiring, I imagine,…