Peter Sheppard Skaerved is to premiere Le Bon Pasteur (De Goede Herder / The Good Shepherd) at the Zagreb Academy of Music in Croatia on 8 January 2025. Le Bon Pasteur is inspired by the painting of the same name by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638) which is on display at the Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.

`Le Bon Pasteur’ by Pieter Brueghel the Younger at the Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels.

Over 2025 Nigel Clarke is writing a number of short solo violin pieces for Peter Sheppard Skaerved called Bruegel’s Brush. The work will focus on Brueghel paintings held at Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. The museum in Brussels holds the second largest collection of Brueghel paintings in the world. Bruegel’s Brush will initially focus on the works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

Peter Sheppard Skaerved performing in front of the Bruegel collection at Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Peter is performing on a violin that comes from the same period as the paintings in the collection.

Below is a working-copy of the first two pages of Nigel’s Le Bon Pasteur