Peter Sheppard Skærved
United Kingdom °1966
research interests: The Violin 1550-now, Violin alone, Collaboration - performers and composers, Violin making, Recording, Museums & Galleries, Chamber music, Beethoven and collaboration, Tartini in Padua, Ole Bull
affiliation: Royal Academy of Music, London
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Peter is a Grammy-nominated recording artist, with over one hundred critically acclaimed albums to his name. These range from concerto discs with orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra to the complete Tartini Solo Sonatas, 24 Telemann Fantasies, cycles of Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert Sonatas, eight discs of solo works from the 1600s and many recordings of the works dedicated to him. Peter is currently 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, and the Paganini violins kept at the City of Genoa. Peter is the Viotti Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Academy of Music London where he a Fellow. Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Fellow , Artist in Residence at Lund University, Sweden, and visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. He regularly gives masterclasses and workshops at schools across the USA, including Peabody Conservatoire, Mannhattan School of Music, Eastman Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Middlebury College, Cornell University and many more.
