Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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Peter Sheppard Skaerved
@psskaervedviolin.bsky.social
Violinist
Materials for yesterday's SOUNDBOX Royal Academy of Music Stage One of 'The Challenge of the Classical', which is my little love song to an important aspect of who we are. Here's yesterday's playlist, which got from Bassano to Tartini

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February 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
First glimpse ... wildly over-excited about this
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Here it is ... session outtakes of David Hackbridge Johnson's 7th Quartet, in the studio at the beginning of the week. ... just unedited, raw takes, but a chance to get a sense of this extraordinary piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmd...
David Hackbridge Johnson - 7th Quartet (in the studio)
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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February 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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A glimpse of what we have been up to today
David Hackbridge Johnson 7th Quartet in the Studio - Kreutzer Quartet
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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January 26, 2026 at 11:44 PM
A glimpse of what we have been up to today www.yout ube.com/watch?v=VnuSdAaHmfg
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January 26, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Moving towards an incredibly exciting release of Michael Hersch's epochal 'Zwischen Leben und Tod' w/Roderick Chadwick on Metier . Here's a newly scanned page of this extraordinary 100-minute work. And my playlist of our two-decade collaboration youtube.com/playlist?lis...
January 24, 2026 at 11:42 PM
First chance to hear: one of glorious 2023 Sonatas by David Hackbridge Johnson that Roderick Chadwick, Adaq Khan and I recorded on Tuesday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=19kj...
From the Studio - David Hackbridge Johnson - 6th Sonata
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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January 23, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Here's 45 seconds of what we were doing yesterday! The joyous ending of David Hackbridge Johnson's 6th Sonata - with Roderick Chadwick. Just mobile phone sound - just wait till you actually here the sound the Adaq Khan has for us - you will just have to wait!
A glimpse from the studio - a glorious ending to David Hackbridge Johnson Sonata 5!
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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January 21, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Michael Hersch & I have spent the weekend working on the programme book for our upcoming release of his epochal 'Zwischen Leben und Tod' w/Roderick Chadwick on Metier . Here's a film Richard Anderson and I did about this piece, in 2018, very much in media Res,
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved on performing Michael Hersch's "Zwischen Leben und Tod: 22 pieces after images by Peter Weiss"
Peter Sheppard-Skaerved on performing Michael Hersch's "Zwischen Leben und Tod: 22 pieces after images by Peter Weiss"
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January 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Saturday morning low winter sun, lime trees and coffee
Nevinson on my mind
January 17, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A moment of calm from Henry Eccles for this dark rainy evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZE...
Peter Sheppard Skærved plays The Met’s “Gould” violin by Stradivari
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January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
First chance to see - 'Dialogues', the performance that Evis Sammoutis and I presented, with his music and 17th century miniatures, in Grenoble.

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‘Evis Sammoutis – Nicosia Études, in dialogue’
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January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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 the hills to the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9z...
Gregory Fritze-Three Duos/in the studio
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
First chance to hear - Five of Evis Sammoutis 'Nicosia Etudes' live at Université des Alpes, Grenoble, last month.
With images on the road over the past 5 weeks www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpy...
Evis Sammoutis – 5 'Nicosia Études' (Live in Grenoble)
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January 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Westhoff in Grenoble - his 1694 imitation of bells, live in Grenoble, two weeks ago. I found the extraordinary image of travellers crossing the nearby Alps, in the wonderful city museum. It was painted by Francesco Foschi in 1750
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Westhoff's bells, live in Grenoble, December 2025
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December 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
First chance to hear Evis Sammoutis's newest 'Nicosia Etude' No 7 'Cinyras'. Live in Grenoble last week. Watch out for the whole concert www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIo...
Evis Sammoutis – Nicosia Étude 7: ‘Κινύρας – Cinyras’ - World Premiere
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December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Coffee and Alexander Calder - 'Les Trois Pics' 1968
Gare Nouvelle, Grenoble
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I succeeded in uploading this this morning without the ending...now, that's more like it! youtu.be/EjbOqJJ9tTA?...
David Hackbridge Johnson Sonata III Op 113 3rd Movement - Funeral March
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
First chance to hear - the haunting funeral march from David Hackbridge Johnson's 3rd Sonata ( outtakes from last week's recording with Roderick Chadwick & Adaq Khan. The picture is the Collégiale Saint-André de Grenoble, yesterday
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David Hackkbridge Johnson - Funeral March from Sonata 3 Op 113
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December 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A pause for thought, this morning ,at the crossing of Notre Dame de Rouen
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
After the performance
Xenakis , Evis Sammoutis and then this!
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
At my practice desk in the attic of a house near the cathedral here in Notre Dame, going into the detal of Evis Sammoutis's etude based on Virelai 4 (Cyprus Codex) - almost exactly contemporary to the 'Tour de Buerre' which I can see from my table here
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December 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
More from last week in the studio - a glimpse of Martin Ellerby's 'A Violin in the Ashmolean' www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nm...
Martin Ellerby - A Violin in the Ashmolean (The Alfred Jewel)
YouTube video by Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
First chance to hear - session outtakes of David Hackbridge Johnson's radiant 4th Sonata for piano and violin. Raw materials from the weekend recording with Roderick Chadwick, engineer Adaq Khan at St Michaels' Highgate www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nku6...
David Hackbridge Johnson - Sonata No 4
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December 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Now online www.thestrad.com/.../what-we-...
Photos by Richard Bram & Suzi Maeder
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November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM