Location: St Nicholas’ Church, Chiswick Mall, W4 2PJ
Pricing: Student ticket £6.50 | General Admission £13.01
The Friends of St Nicholas’ Church and Hogarth’s House together present this musical performance and poetry recital, in association with the Sensing and Feeling in Hogarth’s World exhibition at Hogarth’s House.
Music and words in the church where William Hogarth is buried. Works by Handel, Pepusch, John Christopher Smith, Michael Alec Rose Corelli, Bononcini, Castrucci, Michael Alec Rose and David Hackbridge Johnson .
Poetry by Alexander Pope and Malene Sheppard Skærved
This concert will be played on a violin by Girolamo Amati made in 1629, one of the finest examples of early 17th century making.
Peter Sheppard Skærved – Violin
Julian Perkins – Harpsichord
Malene Sheppard Skærved – Speaker
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is the dedicatee of over four hundred works for violin alone and acclaimed for his extensive recording and filming of early music. Recently he has released films on Nicolo Paganini’s violins in Genoa, as well as on the instruments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, and the Ashmolean Museum. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recordings of Hans Werner Henze Concertos.
Harpsichordist and conductor, Julian Perkins has recently completed his first season as artistic director of the acclaimed ‘Portland Baroque’ in the USA. He has released critically acclaimed recordings ranging from 17th century English dramatic works, by way of Schubert on square piano, to recent works for clavichord.
Writer and filmmaker Malene Sheppard Skærved has collaborated extensively with composers, resulting in both orchestral melodramas, or more intimate chamber works. Her critically acclaimed work is performed across the USA and Europe. Working with Peter Sheppard Skaerved and the historian Ben Hebbert, she has made a series of films about Hogarth in Chiswick.
