Event overview
"A Chapel – new music inspired by a medieval space" - in collaboration with Malmo Music Academy, Lund University, University of Wisconsin and Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
‘A Chapel’ Music for Krämarekapellet’ at Skt Petri kyrka Malmö 2024
Bent Sørensen (Denmark): Magdalena
Evis Sammoutis (Cyprus): Ἁγία Σοφία
Nigel Clarke (Belgium/UK): Pastoral
Robert Saxton (UK): Miniatures
Daniel Hjorth (Sweden): Insight (Insikt/Inblick)
Rolf Martinsson (Sweden): Three Chapel Miniatures
Sadie Harrison (Australia/UK): Ballare una passacaglia di ombre
Staffan Storm (Sweden): Eroded Memories of Heaven and Beyond
Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (Kosova): Sankta Catharina
David Riebe (Sweden): Horror Vacui
Michael Alec Rose (USA): St Anthony’s
Anon (ca 1680): Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Over the summer of 2024, an extraordinary group of composers collaborated with violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved to respond to the ‘Merchant’s Chapel’ in the Petri-Kyrka, Malmö. This is one of very few elaborately decorated religious spaces in Scandinavia not to have been destroyed in the Reformation and iconoclasm of the mid 1500s. Each composer crafted an original answer to riotous decoration and extraordinary acoustics of Krämarekapellet’.
At the beginning of October, the resulting ‘A Chapel’ was premiered in Sweden, and then filmed in the space. Two weeks later, the project, complete with projections of the space, was seen and heard for the first time in the USA, first in Wisconsin, and then in Tennessee.
This will be the first time that ‘A Chapel’ is heard in London.
LINK to film from the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrujlXNQsc
Peter Sheppard Skærved is acclaimed internationally for performances of a vast range of solo repertoire. His repertoire stretches from the late 16th century to hundreds of works written for him: these include major works by composers by established ‘greats’ such as Hans Werner Henze and George Rochberg, to the many young composers with whom he collaborates worldwide.
Peter is a Grammy-nominated recording artist, with over one hundred critically acclaimed albums to his name. In the past few months, he has released critically acclaimed discs of works dedicated to him by David Matthews, Edward Cowie, Gloria Coates, Sadie Harrison, and Joel Järventausta.
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, the Zagreb Arts and Crafts Museum and the Paganini violins kept at the City of Genoa. Peter is Honorary Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting Research Fellow of Goldsmiths, University of London.
YouTube Channel (800 films, recordings and talks): http://www.youtube.com/@ PeterSheppardSkaervedviolin
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 21 Nov 2024 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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