First chance to hear (if you couldn't be there) our premiere of Nicola LeFanu's rapturous duo inspired by an extraordinary Norman space youtu.be/ozLQU6cxKoU

I got to know Petr Pokorný (1932–2008) Brno,: the last time that we met, over a lovely supper with Pavel Novak, he gave me this lovely piece youtu.be/S4lKUv8h6MY

Inspired by two great instruments, a wonderful space, two great composers, and a great friend - with Nicola LeFanu, Daniel Parker (x2), Mozart, and Morgan Goff at the end of an amazing day at the 12th century church of St Mary Iffley. Photos thanks to Malene Sheppard Skaerved & Gerald Garcia

In preparation for Sunday's LeFanu/Mozart extravaganza at St Mary the Virgin Iffley, here is the premiere of her wonderful response to the Grinling Gibbons panel at Fairfax House, York, filmed live under Covid restrictions at the Jack Lyons Hall in 2020 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3-...

Another extraordinary violin - Kreutzer, in revolutionary mood, meets Paganini's wonderful del Gesu www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psfz...

Another extraordinary violin - Kreutzer, in revolutionary mood, meets Paganini's wonderful del Gesu www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psfz...

Very proud to be a small part of this extraordinary project vimeo.com/1077988406

Etched: a stroll Wapping Waterloo Wapping to end the evening of conversation with Nigel Clarke

Here's some Baltzar, and quite a viola, for Saturday - and an interesting scordatura www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj6H... @metmuseum.org

Morning coffee in Wapping buy our river, with the Doggett's Coat and Badge, the oldest continuous rowing race in the world. Every year on this river since 1715 But I’ve never seen so many boats, they rowed rowing past me on the flood tide for over an hour n

Today's celebration, on the workdesk - William Hogarth's 'Laughing Audience' ( an orginal 1733 copy). Come to this evening's celebration w/ Malene Sheppard Skaerved Julian Perkins hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...

A joyful and exciting day digging deep into glorious clarinet quintets by David Hackbridge Johnson and David Matthews with the gang -with Linda Merick, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde

Doing my thing this evening at Royal Academy of Music

For your diary @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - Luke Lewis, Nigel Clarke & David Matthews at the George Wood Theatre And it's free - thanks to Imogen Burman-Mitchell for the collaboration ! www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Hogarth was obsessed with music, and had quite a dim view of violinists (his 'Enrag'd Musician' is probably Castrucci). Come along to Chiswick next week, to the church where he is buried, where Malene Sheppard Skaerved, Julian Perkins, and I will explore this, hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...

Tomorrow I am giving a presentation about my 'Knowledge Exchange Violin' project at the RAM. It's not public, but here is my playlist of films associated with it - made in Genova, New York, Oxford, Malmo, DC, St Paul, Minneapolis, Leighton Moss, Penzance - Explore here youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Coming up next week - a salon evening at the church where Hogarth is buried, with Julian Perkins and Malene Sheppard Skaerved Follow the link for the details - and, do book ahead so that the venue has an idea of numbers hogarthshouse.org/events_exhib...

The composer arrives: David Matthews on the promenade at Penzance with Jenifer Wakelyn and Chris Mercer - Concert tomorrow Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v... @fabermusic.bsky.social

Book tickets for this exciting programme, linked to a wonderful part of East London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sentinel-s...

First hint of something coming in two months...watch this space

Here are outtakes of David Hackbridge Johnson and I recording his dramatic suite, inspired by a 1709 Tatler story of the 'Corelli of Wapping', 'Will Rosin'. Engineered by Adaq Khan www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN3i...

On the overnight practice desk (with four Roman tesserae). The tiniest of the dozens of solo pieces that the great David Matthews has written me. Playing a brace of them next week at glorious Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens (Zoom in for the fascinating detail....) www.tremenheere.co.uk/exhibition/v...

youtu.be/PQrhigW0tIU Fifty seconds of wildness! A LoFi glimpse of what David Hackbridge Johnson and I have been up to with Adaq Khan NB!!!! This is a LOFI phone grab - NOT the wonderful sound that will be actual result! Just a peek at the fun #relaxingclassicalmusic youtu.be/PQrhigW0tIU

After the glorious afternoon working on Nicola Lefanu's wonderful new Duo, which Morgan Goff and I premiere in Oxford next month, here is the solo piece she wrote me based on a Grinling Gibbons sculpture www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3-...

A glorious afternoon working on the fantastic new Nicola leFanu duo and a heap of Mozart with my treasured colleague and friend Morgan Goff

People watching: follow the link some of the past couple of months' crop from the alphabet of humanity www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com?p=31470

On the overnight practice desk, here in Manhattan. Two more miniatures by Nigel Clarke - his wonderfulf BreugelBrueghel series continues to bloom

Today the 145th anniversary of the death of Ole Bull. My playlist, beginning with my reimagining of his lost 'American Fantasy', premiered atLysøen (Shown) Malene Sheppard Skaerved slept in his house in Madiso last week - much on our mind as we ride the rails in the USA. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

An extraordinary afternoon on and in the water on Chesapeake Bay- and my sight of Thomas Poin Shoal Lighthouse - built in 1875 at the mouth of the South River in the Chesapeake Bay

On the overnight practice desk, after an hour watching shooting stars from the Terrace -Johann Paul von Westhoff - Imiatione delle Campane‘, technical breakdown - here;s a performance I gave 5 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWP...

Now that we have arrived in New York after 11 days on the road, here are the beginnings of some thoughts about violin playing that have been percolating as a practice each night. Niclas Berry & Heather Oakley's sparklers helped. Read here www.peter-sheppard-skaerved.com?p=31505

Celebrating Paul Pellay's birthday (two days late!!!). One of my most treasured collaborators - here's just a sliver of his epic 'Thesaurus of Violinist Fiendishness' : (photo by Richard Bram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeUF...

In the middle of a writing a letter to a fellow artist, I remembered and wrote about, this vase of flowers in Copenhagen 24 years ago On Thomas Bendixen & Morten Skærved's table

On the overnight practice-desk; Nicola leFanu's wonderful new meditation on a Norman church near Oxford, where Morgan Goff and I will premiere it next month - do come www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/oxf...

Entertaining myself on the train this morning The way to Minnesota

More viola happiness: more outtakes from recording David Hackbridge Johnson's extraordinary solo works last week, and here, his '7 Versets' for the glorious 1641 Rayman Viola - with thanks to Ben Hebbert (and some of my favourite Grinling Gibbons) www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qJ...

Yet more from last week's joyful recording with David Hackbridge Johnson - his divisions on an extraraordinary prelude by 'Mr Simons' (Probably Henry Simons) published by Walshe in 1700 I play lots of scordatura, but this is my first time with FDae! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAF...

'One chilly October morning in 2023,I was walking along a Mindwestern alley as the sun was rising to find my morning coffee. On my return to my room, I drew the wonderful sunrise, and posted it online.David Hackbridge Johnson saw the image & responded with music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQg...

First chance to hear one of the two sets of pieces that David Hackbridge Johnson has written inspired by the astonishin 1641 Rayman viola. Session outtakes from last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7c9...

First chance to hear - another of Nigel Clarke's miniatures inspired by the Bruegel/Breughels. Here's the Fall of Icarus, a picture, of course, that many Brits read about, enchanted, before they saw, courtesy of W H Auden ('doggies go on with their doggy lives'). www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ES...

A day without violin practice: conversation by the river

More from a busy month in the recording studio. Mihailo Trandafilovski's eloquent response to Joanna Jones wonderful work.Two of my favourite artists, in dialogue ( I just bring my violin) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfR...

This is what we have been to - first chance to hear Martin Ellerby's delicate meditation on an East End tragedy, and its memorial (in the studio yesterday with my dear friends, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde) www.youtube.com/watch?v=efR5...

An the overnight practice desk - a Bunte Reihe of wonders by Nicola Mateis. Here's a G minor Sarabande by the violinist that John Evelyn admired so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH4...

Just in oblique reply to some silly things people have been saying about Hans Werner Henze on this site recently, his Sonatina - grounded in Tuscany, like the Solo Sonata, and a delight in every way - with Roderick Chadwick www.youtube.com/watch?v=mItV... Now go out and buy it...

Saturday morning: and the river wakes

The composer's hand - I always get Robert Saxton to explore ideas in my notebooks - this was on Cannon Street Station today, and here's my playlist of performances of 3 quartets and a wonderful heap of his solo music youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Evening conversations and plotting with Evis Sammoutis - here's a well-spring of sonority on Paganini/Sivori's violin. Filmed by Immo Horn and directed by Malene Sheppard Skaerved www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhmw...

A day with ever-inspired Robert Saxton, planning new miniatures, talking about architecture and layers in the Square Mile

Some Locatelli to put some fizz into the morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLh1...