Facing the Past / Facing the Future

Peter Sheppard Skӕrved’s lecture Facing the Past / Facing the Future as part of the 7th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival is a foretaste of the concert he will give the next day, Tuesday 6 October at The Shoe Factory, with horn player Carly Lake and pianist Roderick Chadwick, during which the two great horn trios of Brahms and Ligeti will be featured.

Ligeti’s epochal Trio ‘riffs’ on the Brahms Trio, as well as with his own music. Brahms looks back to the horn playing tradition of the Baroque, as well as the memory of his childhood. Both composers succeed in breaking the bonds of traditional chamber music, both in virtuosity and reach. Likewise, all the composers presented as part of the next day’s concert (Brahms, Ligeti, Messiaen, Luigi Nono and David Gorton) saw the future whilst in conversation with the past. Skӕrved, instrument in hand, explores some of the dialogues between these pieces, the pasts they evoke and the futures they foresee. Peter Sheppard Skӕrved is the dedicatee of over 400 works for violin, and is a Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was elected Fellow in 2013.

Duration: 90’
Language: English

Information: Pharos Arts Foundation Tel. (+357) 22-663871 / www.pharosartsfoundation.org

The event is part of the 7th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival