BRUEG[H]EL’S BRUSH at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium

Here is a selection of photographs documenting last week’s concert at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The event featured Peter Sheppard Skaerved who performed solo violin and viola works in the museum’s Bruegel Room, surrounded by paintings from Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Peter played eight of Nigel’s solo violin and viola miniatures from Book One of ‘BRUEG[H]EL’S BRUSH’, alongside music composed during the Bruegel family’s era.

In May and June Peter Sheppard Skaerved will record both Book 1 and 2 of ‘BRUEG[H]EL’S BRUSH’ on the Devine Arts record label and will be released in Autumn of this year.

A heartfelt thank you to Christine Ayoub, Sabine van Sprang and the wonderful staff at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium for making this event possible.

Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) performing at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium

Nigel Clarke introducing Brueg[h]el’s Brush at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium

Sabine van Sprang (RMFAB) introducing the works for Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium.

Extract from Nigel Clarke’s Brueg[h]el’s Brush