Stevie Wishart

COMPOSER CATALOGUE

Selected composing commissions & installations

Performances with Stevie Wishart's own ensemble include those in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and in the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, in the USA and in Australia, including performances at the Adelaide Festival and the Sydney Opera House. Her concerts have been recorded live by BBC Radio 3, Radio France, the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation, ORF, German radio networks, and by radio VRT Klara in Belgium.

2009

• Demain - music commissioned for new production by Compagnie Michele Noiret for the Théâtre National in Brussels, based on computer treatments of Beethoven.
• – new commission for solo viola for Julia Eckhardt, q-o2, Brussels, Belgium
• – new commission for Fo-am, Brussels, Belgium

2008

• Sense for members of the Britten Sinfonia and young musicians from three Ipswich Schools for Random Dance, July 2008
• Sound of gesture - solos for  violin, sensors & computer sound transformation/ synthesis (Wishart has directed the development of an audio and gestural interface to control the computer as a violinist). The computer generated music moves between the speakers of the sound-dome to create sonic clouds around the acoustic sound and physical placement of the violin. ZKM|Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie. Germany. Solo performances included Concert venue: Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, ZKM the Kubus concert hall at ZKM, Karlsruhe and Muffathalle in Munich, Germany. MORE ...
• Solos for Hurdy Gurdy: Strings, Wheel, and Fingers, Breuckenmusik, Koln.

2007

• Europa - Work-in-progress : ‘EUROPA’ with the ensemble Sinfonye using theorbo, guitar, organ, hurdy-gurdy and voices for Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Styriarte Festival in Graz, for June 2007. Europa is to be developed into a concert and staged production.MORE ...
• Quartet by Margie Medlin for dancer, robot camera, musician and virtual dancer. Performed and composed the music for violin, music sensors and computer instruments. Co-produced by the ICA and the Wellcome Trust, London, February 2007.

2006

• Music for dance piece the Chambre Blanche by Michele Noiret, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, and Festival Bellone-Brigittines, Brussels. Lauréate du Prix de la Danse 2006 de la Communauté française de Belgique
• The sound of gesture for violin, voice, & sensor controlled virtual-instruments for laptop – performed by the composer/improviser for the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, hosted by IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris in collaboration with the MINT/OMF of the Sorbonne University; Cambridge Music Festival, and Arts Centre Vooruit Gent/UNESCO, Homo Futuris festival, Belgium

2005

• Wellcome Trust Sciart Production Award with Margie Medlin in collaboration with the Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge: to research, compose and develop a gestural musical language and technique for the music for QUARTET, for musician, virtual dancer, solo dancer and robot camera, 2005-2006
• Music for video installation PANG Anouk de Clercq commissioned by for Contour 2nd Biennale of Video Art 2005, Mechelen and TEMPS D'IMAGES at Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels) and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland), September to December 2005
• ARROW - new ensemble piece for counter-tenor, organ, and strings, commissioned by Augsburg, Pax Festival (Germany) premiere August 2005

2004

• JONGLEURS DU COEUR - new piece for Zefiro Torna; soprano, lute, wind instruments, tromba-marine, percussion, hurdy-gurdy and medieval fiddle. Commissioned by the early music group, Brussels 2004
• ISLAND UNIVERSES - ensemble piece for tuba, bass flute, viola, bass clarinet, and harp, with live electronics and the mechanical sounds of 4 slide projectors. The audience is immersed in a series of Island Universes* where electronic and instrumental sound interact with the gradually darkening concert space and the continuously changing gaseous images of Ludo Engel’s’ projections. Commissioned by the new music group Q02, Brussels with funds from the Flemish Government, in production with Concertgebouw, Bruges, and De Singel, Antwerp.
• ROUGE CLOÎTRE inspired by the madness of the painter Hugo van der Goes for renaissance and contemporary voices, harp, organ, lutes, hurdy-gurdy, commissioned and produced by the Festival van Vlaanderen/Radio Klara 2004

2003

• ICED for orchestra, Theremin and live electronics commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, France. The work is notated with a score including parts to be played on midi keyboard and drum pads to “play” virtual instrument in Max/MSP, with string orchestra, gongs, and Theremin with 6 channel sound spacialisation.
• ILLUMINATIONS for string orchestra, commissioned by the Ten Tors Orchestra in England, with funds from South-West Arts, UK and the Women in Music Festival
• Music for theatre piece WRAAK (REVENGE) Belgian actor Nadia Abdelouafii. Produced and commissioned by the Cultural Centre of Berchem, Antwerp, about the lives of Moroccan women in northern Europe. Toured in Holland and Belgium and music performed live by the composer.
• MISS WORLD - Music for triple screen DVD installation by Australian artist Margie Medlin; commissioned for 2003 Future Cinema exhibition at ZKM, Zentrum für Neue Künst Media in Karlesruhe and touring world-wide (2005). Soundtrack is for surround sound format and uses urban field recordings, electronic generated sound and treatments for voice and string instruments.
• Music for Jane Woollard’s music theatre piece AELFGYVA for live voices, harp, with additional pre-recorded parts as a quadraphonic sound-track. Commissioned by the Autumn Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

2002

• Music for Slow Love by the Australian writer Richard Murphet. Produced in Belgium by Theater Malpertuis, the piece toured the Flemish theatres during autumn 1999 and then played for the 2000 Telstra Adelaide Festival, Australia.
• Transients for voices, prepared and classical harps, oud, sentir (Arabic lute and string bass), Moroccan hand drums, drum-kit, hurdy-gurdy and live electronics. The ensemble is ongoing and was specially chosen to include musicians from Sinfonye the composer’s medieval group, and from improvised, contemporary, and Arabic music. Commissioned by the Beursschouwberg, Brussels and the radio Klara festival van Vlaanderen

1998-2001

• Nominated as artist-in-residence at the Künstlerinnenhof, Die Höge, Germany1999/2000
• Red Iris- multimedia performance bringing together music from 14th century Italy (istampite) with projections from medieval manustripts, live close-circuit camera, and reciter. Designed by Blanchette, produced by Boris Kelly of Mob Productions funded by Australia Council New Media award.
• Hildegard of Bingen – a four-part radio presentation for the BBC World Service, and sell-out concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
• “UT” sound installation c1000 c2000 with visual artist Joan Grounds commission for Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, with funds from the Australia Council. Included stereo soundscape and 8 channel sound diffusion.
• Sonic hieroglyphs with Machine for Making Sense and Joan Grounds, for Sydney Opera House with outside performance and projections onto the white sails, with foyer installation, and multi-speaker studio performance
• Drawn on Sound v.2 - installation with artist Joan Grounds for CACSA Contemporary Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. The piece explores the medieval system of visualising music on the palm of the hand, the hurdy-gurdy, and how they embody space and architecture.

1993-1997

• Red rage rouge for female choir, commission by the Oxford Girls’ Choir, director Richard Vendome with funds from the Foundation for Sports and Arts, UK.
• Re-inventing the wheel, commission for ABC Radio National, Listening Room
• Haiku urbains, une compilation de compositions de plus ou moins 1 minute/ de Yann Marussich, 1997 (Tom Cora, Iva Bittova, Haco etc, Wishart tracks 1, 50). RecRec Medien AG, Zurich, Switzerland
• Azeruz, music commissioned for A & E TV Networks (USA) ‘Mission Berlin’ Flashback Television, UK
• Holy jig n′caper music for dance by the choreographer Yolande Snaith as part of the Ballroom Blitz series for the South Bank, London and the Greenwich Dance Festival, UK 1994
• Gone to earth - Tape piece for outdoor woodland site in collaboration with sculptor Richard Harris and movement artist Yolanda Snaith. Arts Council of England award, 1993
• International Record of the Year for SINFONYE's third CD selected for (24 Hour’s magazine, ABC Radio), Lacuna, music composition for voices, electronics, percussion, hurdy-gurdy, commissioned for BBC Radio 3, Mixing It with funds from the Arts Council of England 1992

Winners of International Early Music Competition, Festival van Vlaanderen, Bruges. With Wishart’s medieval music group SINFONYE awarded highest prize in the ensemble section, 1992.

Three tours for the Early Music Network, including performances in the Wigmore Hall, London, the Purcell Room, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and all the major early music festivals in UK and Europe.

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