Guest artist Peter Sheppard Skærved’s “Knowledge Exchange Violin: A Performer’s Odessey” program will be presented at Blair’s Turner Recital Hall on Monday, October 21, 7:30 p.m., The second event in the yearlong Music in the Real World Colloquium, Skærved brings together historic instruments, composers, nature, painting, ecologists, architecture, and more, in an exploration of how the making of music illuminates—and is illuminated by—its place in the world. Skærved has collaborated with institutions including the Library of Congress, the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
The project brings together musics from the 16th century to our own time, and Blair professor Michael Alec Rose has been a collaborator on the project, writing works which breathe new life into very old instruments, exploring the resonances of ancient spaces and landscapes.
How are the seasons reflected in the construction of the violin? How can a Bosch painting teach us about who we are today? How does our present speak to the past? These are just some of ideas Skærved has been exploring in a series of live events, films, podcasts, and premieres on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is a free event, with tickets required for admission. Reserve tickets
Knowledge Exchange Violin is supported by Research England and the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Peter Sheppard Skærved is a award-winning violinist, recording artist, and educator, who currently serves as Viotti Lecturer in Performance Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He regularly appears as a soloist in over 30 countries and his extensive discography ranges from cycles of sonatas by Beethoven and Telemann, the complete quartets of David Matthews, and cycles of concertos from Haydn to Henze. He has won awards from the BBC Music Magazine and received nominations for a Gramophone Award and a Grammy for a concerto recording in 2007. He records for NMC, Chandos, Naxos, Metier, and Toccata.
Learn more about the Music in the Real World Colloquium.