Stevie Wishart

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Stevie Wishart
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Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s) hurdy-gurdy, violin
LabelsDecca

Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser, and performer on the hurdy-gurdy and violin. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, as well as performing music from the repertoire of the medieval troubadours, trouvères and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.

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Wishart was educated at Cambridge, [1] Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, studying composition and electronic music at the University of York with Trevor Wishart and Richard Orten. She then studied improvised and aleatoric music with John Cage and David Tudor. Later she was a member of performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart and Jim Denley. [2]

Selected works

Selected recordings

Composition

Of Mary, a maide / Te Deum Laudamus
Let's be merry as bird on berry
Lullaby for Freya (Tàladh Chrìosda)

Improvisation

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References

  1. From the CRASSH event at the Cambridge University Music Faculty, 22 September 2011.
  2. John Jenkins, 22 Contemporary Australian Composers, NMA Publications, Brunswick, Australia, 1988
  3. "Crisis crescendos: How the Proms is sounding the alarm for a planet in peril". TheGuardian.com . 18 July 2019.
  4. Hildegard, Britten, Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Stevie Wishart: BBC Proms, 27 August 2011
  5. Lieder und Balladen von Helen Buchholtz (1877–1953), Solo Musica, Cat No. SM309.
  6. "Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge & Edward Wickham". resonusclassics.com. 13 November 2015. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
  7. In Patterns of Love compilation (voice 0799439747999), 2015
  8. CD Decca/Universal (4765117).
  9. Performed & composed by Stevie Wishart with video artist Yvonne Mohr. SW001CD-DVD.
  10. Mikroton CD 4.
  11. The Compass, Log and Lead, Intakt Records (2006).