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S T E V I E   W I S H A R T 
C A T A L O G U E   O F   W O R K S 

Complete Works | Opera & Music Theatre | Orchestra | Chamber ensemble & Instrumental | Choir | Gallery & Foyer Sound Installations | Improvisations
O P E R A  &  M U S I C  T H E A T R E  

Henric, 2013

Literary film-concert / Een literair filmconcert
Co-composed with Gerrit Valckenaers for the writer Elvis Peeters, video by Jan Weynants Commissioned by the Festival van Vlaanderen

Demain, 2010

Solo dancer and soundtrack
Commissioned by Compagnie Michèle Noiret
Premiere by Michèle Noiret and Compagnie Michèle Noiret, Théâtre National in Brussels, February 2010 A multiform choreographic piece for four assistants, one cameraman and a dancer, interpreted by Michèle Noiret, and developed with Todor Todoroff, transforms and intertwines the sound textures of the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony

Quartet, 2007

Dancer, robot camera and virtual dancer, by Margie Medlin
Co-produced by the ICA and the Wellcome Trust, London, February 2007
Instrumentation: Violin, music sensors and computer instruments

La Chambre Blanche, 2006

Four dancers and soundtrack
Commissioned by Compagnie Michèle Noiret Premiere by Compagnie Michèle Noiret, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, and Festival Bellone-Brigittines, Brussels. 2006
Lauréate du Prix de la Danse 2006 de la Communauté française de Belgique

Music for theatre piece, WRAAK (REVENGE), 2003

Produced and commissioned by the Cultural Centre of Berchem, Antwerp, about the lives of Moroccan women in northern Europe
Premiered in Holland and Belgium and music performed live by the composer With Belgian actor Nadia Abdelouafii

Music for Jane Woollard’s music theatre piece AELFGYVA, 2003

Ensemble and soundtrack
Commissioned by the Autumn Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia
Premiered at the Autumn Music Festival, Melbourne; music performed live by the composer and members of the ensemble
Instrumentation: Live voices, harp, pre-recorded parts as a quadraphonic soundtrack

Slow Love (revised version), 2002

Music for Slow Love by the Australian writer Richard Murphet
Revised for Chamber Made Opera
Premiered at the Beckett Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia; music performed live by the composer
Instrumentation: violin, hurdygurdy, analogue & digital sound processing, vocals Awarded the 2002 Green Room Award for Best New Music Score

Slow Love, 2000

Music for Slow Love by the Australian writer Richard Murphy
Commissioned by Theater Malpertuis, Belgium
Premiered at Theater Malpertuis, Tielt, Belgium 1999 and Adelaide Festival, Australia, 2000; music performed live by the composer
Instrumentation: violin, hurdygurdy, analogue & digital sound processing, vocals


O R C H E S T R A   

Iced, 2004
Orchestra, theremin and live sound processing
Commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, France
Instrumentation: string orchestra, theremin and live sound processing
MaxMSP programming by Kasper Toeplitz 

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Score sample - Iced 1 - comme l'eau devient glace 
Score sample - Iced 2 - la transparence se décompose dans le blanc
Score sample - Iced 3 - et le mouvement gèle à l'intérieur 

Illuminations, 2003

String orchestra
Commissioned by the Ten Tors Orchestra in England, with funds from South-West Arts, UK and the Women in Music Festival
Premiered by the Ten Tors Orchestra, 2003 Instrumentation: string orchestra
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C H A M B E R  E N S E M B L E  &  I N S T R U M E N T A L   

La Folie Douce, 2011
Music-theatre miniature for reciter-vocalist, cello, viola da gamba, and hurdy-gurdy.
Commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first edition of L’Éloge de la Folie d’Erasme by the Erasmushuis, Brussels
Premiere by Stevie Wishart with Sergei Istomin and Catherine Jauniaux at Erasmushuis, Brussels, 2011
Instrumentation: reciter-vocalist, viola da gamba, cello, violin, hurdy-gurdy
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The Sound of Gesture, 2010

Solos for violin, sensors & computer sound transformation/synthesis
Commissioned by ZKM, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Germany and ADK, Akademie der Künst, Berlin
Performances: Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, Kubus concert hall at ZKM, Karlsruhe and Muffathalle in Munich, Germany
A hybrid of music technology, interactivity, real-time sound processing, music gesture and the violin, using improvisation and electroacoustic composition Instrumentation: violin, sensors & computer sound transformation/synthesis
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Score sample - frozen particles

Viola, 2010

Solo viola Commissioned by q-o2, Brussels, Belgium
Premiered by Julia Eckhardt, Netwerk, Aalst, 2010
Instrumentation: solo viola and tape

Sense, 2008

For members of the Britten Sinfonia and young musicians from three Ipswich Schools for Random Dance, July 2008
Instrumentation: chamber orchestra

Solos for Strings, Wheel, and Fingers, 2008

Solo hurdy-gurdy
Commissioned for Wiener Drehleier-Festival
Performances at ORF RadioKulturhaus, Vienna 2008; Breuckenmusik, Koln, 2009; The Future University's Improvisation in the Round concert, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge University, 2012; Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Queen's University Belfast, 2013,
 and Urban Rituals Festival, Les Brigittines, Brussels
Instrumentation: solo hurdy-gurdy
See also Improvisation in the Round: Stevie Wishart at the University of Cambridge, 2011 HERE

Reduction, 2008

String quartet
Commissioned for the members of the Britten Sinfonia
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello
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Allegretto con fuoco, 2008

String quartet
For the members of the Britten Sinfonia Cambridge and Brussels
Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello

Arrow, 2005

Male voice, organ, and strings
Commissioned by Augsburg, Pax Festival (Germany). Premiered August 2005
Instrumentation: Counter-tenor, organ, and strings

Island Universes, 2004

Ensemble with live electronics and the mechanical sounds of 4 slide projectors
Commissioned by the new music group Q02, Brussels with funds from the Flemish Government, in production with Concertgebouw, Bruges, and De Singel, Antwerp
Instrumentation: Tuba, bass flute, viola, bass clarinet, harp & live electronics

Jongleurs du Coeur, 2004

Vocal-instrumental ensemble Zefiro Torna
Commissioned by the early music group, Brussels 2004
Instrumentation: Soprano, lute, wind instruments, tromba-marine, percussion, hurdy-gurdy and medieval fiddle

Rouge Cloître, 2004

Renaissance and contemporary voices, harp, organ, lutes, hurdy gurdy
Commissioned and produced by the Festival van Vlaanderen/Radio Klara 2004
Instrumentation: voices, harp, organ, lutes, hurdy gurdy

Transients, 2002/2009

Voices, prepared and classical harps, oud, sentir, Moroccan hand drums, drum-kit, hurdy-gurdy and live electronics.
Commissioned by the Beursschouwberg, Brussels and the radio Klara festival van Vlaanderen
Instrumentation: voices, prepared & classical harps, oud, sentir (Arabic lute and string bass), Moroccan hand drums, drum-kit, hurdy-gurdy and live electronics
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C H O I R   

Cantata for the Seasons, 2013/2014
i. Winter
text on the poem Carol by Rowan Williams
for choir (S,A,T,B)
ii. Autumn
text on the poem Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
Choir (S,A,T,B, soloists CT,A,T), strings, 2 pianos
Commissioned by the Ipswich Choral Society
Premiere by the Ipswich Choral Society, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 2014

Vespers for St Hildegard, 2012/2013

Choir (S,A,T,B), soloists (S,A,T), hand-bells, carillon, percussion, harp and organ
Commissioned by Decca and the York Early Music Festival
Also available, version for SATB choir and organ
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Inner Garden, 2012

Community choir
Commissioned by fo.am
Premiere Ghent, October 2012

Choruscans lux, 2012

Female choir
Commissioned by the Southbank Centre
Premiere by Voice at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March 2012

Out of this World, 2011

Choir
i. O Verbum Patris, (T,B) 7'
ii. O Fili dilectissime, (S,A) 2'30
iii. O factura Dei, (S,A,T,B) 6'
iv. O eterne Deus, (S,A,T,B with additional high voices) 7'30
Instrumentation: SATB Choir
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Singers
Premiered in the BBC PROMS on 27 August 2011 at the Cadogan Hall, performed by the BBC Singers and Sinfonye, conducted by Robert Hollingworth
Each movement may be performed separately
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Score sample - O Verbum Patris
Score sample - O Fili dilectissime 
Score sample - O factura Dei  
Score sample - O eterne Deus 

Subrosa, 2001
Female choir
Commissioned by the Oxford Girls’ Choir Premiered Mansfield College Chapel, December 2001
Instrumentation: female choir

Azeruz, 2000
Female voices
Commissioned for A & E TV Networks (USA) ‘Mission Berlin’ Flashback Television, UK

Red Rage Rouge, 1993-1997
Female choir
Commission by the Oxford Girls’ Choir, director Richard Vendome with funds from the Foundation for Sports and Arts, UK
Instrumentation: female choir


G A L L E R Y  A N D  F O Y E R  S O U N D   I N S T A L L A T I O N S  

The Sound of Gesture, 2010
Music-video installation
Commissioned by Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse Künst, Aalst Belgium with support from ADK, Akademie der Künst, Berlin
Exhibition at Netwerk/centrum voor hedendaagse Künst, Aalst Belgium, May-June 2010
Instrumentation: violin, sensors & computer sound transformation/synthesis
view images from the gallery installation at Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium HERE

Ophelia, 2005

Soundtrack for video installation by Anouk de Clercq
Commissioned by Contour 2nd Biennale of Video Art 2005, Mechelen and Temps d'Images for the exhibition Pang
Exhibition at Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels) and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland), 2005
Instrumentation: Electronics

Miss World, 2003 

Soundtrack for triple screen film installation by Australian artist Margie Medlin
Surround sound format using urban field recordings, electronic generated sound and treatments for voice and string instruments
Commissioned for 2003 Future Cinema exhibition at ZKM, Zentrum für Neue Künst Media in Karlsruhe

UT, 1998 - 2001

Drawn on Sound with artist Joan Grounds
Commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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
Sound installation opened at Arts Gallery of New South Wales, 1998 and was re-designed for CACSA Contemporary Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2001

Red Iris, 2000 

Medieval violin, reciter, video and live sound
The enigmatic instrumental pieces known as "istampitte" from the Italian trecento are played solo as a staged performance with swathes of white cloth showing projections of exquisite images from medieval frescoes and from the original musical manuscripts, together with live close-circuit camera projections of the musicians as she plays medieval violin and hurdy-gurdy. Designed in Sydney by Blanchette, and produced by Boris Kelly and Mob Productions with funding by an Australia Council New Media award.
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I M P R O V I S A T I O N S   

Le Son du Nous, 2010
by Philippe Starck & Soundwalk Collective and Stevie Wishart
Performed at MAC Créteil with Philippe Starck, Atau Tanaka, Soundwalk Collective, Carol Robinson and Laurent Dailleau for Exit Festival, Paris 2010
Solo hurdy-gurdy, violin, voice

Transients, 2002/2009

Voices, prepared and classical harps, oud, sentir (Arabic lute and string bass), Moroccan hand drums, drum-kit, hurdy-gurdy and live electronics.
Commissioned by the Beursschouwberg, Brussels and the Radio Klara Festival van Vlaanderen, 2002; revised for the Take the Risk Festival, Southbank Centre, London, 2009
Performed with improvisations by the composer and Rhodri Davies

Violet, 2009

with Werner Dafeldecker, Christof Kurzmann and John Tilbury
Performed Vienna, 2009
Also CD for mikroton, 2009

Compass, Log and Lead, 2006

Performed with Fred Frith and Carla Kihlstedt
Also CD Compass, Log and Lead for Intakt, 2006


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