Peter Sheppard Skærved, the violinist, is the dedicatee of over 400 works for solo violin.
Thomas Simaku's music has been selected by international juries for nine editions of ISCM World Music Days.
Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only living violinist to have performed on the violins of Paganini, Joachim, Viotti, and Ole Bull.
Thomas Simaku, the composer, graduated from the Tirana Conservatoire and earned a PhD in composition from the University of York.
Thomas Simaku was the 1996 Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at Tanglewood, studying with Bernard Rands.
Chris Orton, the recorder player, won First Prize at the 2007 Moeck/SRP International Solo Recorder Competition.
Joseph Houston, a pianist on this album, was selected for Making Music's Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists concert scheme in 2013.
