Photo Credit: Els van Riel
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart was educated at Cambridge, 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. As a composer, performer and improviser Stevie explores medieval & contemporary extremes, using ancient technologies such as the hurdy gurdy, as well as electronic and computer music technologies of our own time. She has composed for early and modern music ensembles, including her own group Sinfonye.
Stevie has appeared throughout Europe, USA and Australia in venues ranging from The Wigmore Hall, to the ICA and the Sydney Opera House. She has had residencies and fellowships at ircam, Paris; ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Mills College, California. She played a major role in the Southbank’s ‘Take the Risk’ festival of early and improved music. Stevie has written much for dance and has worked with Margie Medlin, Michèle Noiret and Wayne McGregor, and worked with other creative artists such as designer Philippe Starck. As an improvisor, she performs with artists such as John Tilbury and Fred Frith.
The Sound of Gesture, a project developing an interface with specially commissioned sensors and software for solo violin and computer has been presented live and in gallery installations and was released on cd/dvd in July 2010.
Stevie Wishart is based in Brussels and currently working on BBC commission for the BBC Singers and a number of projects reflecting a passion for finding compositional inspiration in political and environmental issues.
April 2011