Peter Sheppard Skærved

Violinist Peter Sheppard Skӕrved is unusually committed to contemporary music: he has been the dedicatee of more than 400 works. His repertory is broad, however, dating back to the Baroque era, and he is noted as a performer on historical violins. Sheppard Skӕrved was born Peter Sheppard in 1966; he is married to author Malene Skærved and took the surname Sheppard Skærved. "I have a clear memory of a freezing walk home from school when I was 12 or so, and deciding that there certain extremely ambitious things which I wanted to do with music," he told The Cross-Eyed Pianist. B...