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STEVIE WISHART | COMPOSER
News & EventsSTEVIE WISHART
"The highlight for me was Stevie Wishart’s Lullaby for Freya, with its mesmeric, melismatic lines circling round a striking solo by Isabella Savage. The choir’s clean, focused sound was perfect for this “new-old” music, Wishart conjuring something of today from the materials of many centuries ago. I loved it." TheArtsDesk Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Edward Wickham Kings Place Dec 2019 
The Sky is Shared by Everyone
combining Stevie Wishart's new piece 'Weft and Warp' with a spoken word performance by poet Tamim al-Barghouti, performed by Stevie (violin, hurdy-gurdy) and Tamim along with Jon Banks (qanun and percussion) and Joanna MacGregor (piano) at Dartington July 29th 2019 Out of the Mists Harpsichordist Jane Chapman will perform Stevie's piece 'Out of the Mists', along with pianist Joanna MacGregor, as part of an evening of harpsichord recitals at the Dartington International Summer School July 28th 2019 Dartington International Summer School Stevie Wishart leads her new Advanced Composition course at the Dartington International Summer School: Remembering The Future. She will instruct composers and performers who wish to write for or play early instruments, using a broad variety of instruments. The compositions will be performed at the end of the week-long course. July 27th - August 3rd 2019 PREVIOUS EVENTS Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis premiering at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music at St Pancras Parish Church, London May 2019 Eurostar: A Journey Between Cities in Sound performed by The Hermes Experiment at King's Place, London April 25th 2019 Strahlender Himmel performed by soprano Sämann Gerlinde and pianist Claude Weber at the launch of a new CD featuring music dedicated to the music of Helen Buchholtz at CAPE, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg April 5th 2019 Eurostar: A Journey Between Cities in Sound performed by The Hermes Experiment as part of their 5th Birthday Celebration Concert at Crypt on the Green, Faringdon January 11th 2019 Choral Evensong celebrating the Feast of St Cecilia as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, at St Pancras Church, London November 25th 2018 Autumn (from The Seasons) performed by the Ipswich Choral Society’s Bernstein Centenary Celebration for the choir with CT, S & A soloists and obligato piano October 20th 2018 Drawn on Sound exhibition of scores combining digital and hand-written notations with graphic designer Kevin Mount, based upon a new vocal piece “Zie je, ik you van je” to mark the 25th anniversary of the galerie c. de vos, Aalst, Belgium September 9th 2018. Dartington Summer School, August 2018
The Caliph and The Poet Tamim al-Barghouti spoken poetry Stevie Wishart hurdy gurdy and violin Joanna MacGregor piano The famed Palestinian poet and activist performs from his new collection, In Jerusalem and Other Poems. A spoken-word rock star, Tamim’s charisma, brilliance and humour is both revolutionary, illuminating and moving. August, 2018 Proem, Prelude & Fugue Joanna MacGregor piano The Great Hall Dartington, 5.15pm Sun 19 August, 2018 Hildegard von Bingen: A Swaying Bridge between Heaven & Earth A creative pilgrimage from manuscript to performance. Stevie Wishart & Alice Oswald August, 2018 Composition: Remembering the Future Stevie Wishart August, 2018 Dusk
BBC radio 4 commission for the poet Alice Oswald with soundscapes by Stevie Wishart June, 2018. Proem, Prelude & Fugue (2018) piano solo for Joanna Macgregor, premiered BBC Radio 3 Radio Broadcast, from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland February 2018 Nunc Dimittis (2018) Commissioned for the chapel choir of Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge February & March, 2018 Strahlender Himmel for soprano and piano, commissioned in honour of Helen Buchholtz, by Danielle Roster, Cid Femme 2017 Luxembourg for CD release 2018. Out of the Mists a tone poem for harpsichord and piano inspired by the mists of the River Dart. Premiered by Joanna Macgregor - piano, Jane Chapman - harpsichord, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK FUGUE - A Light's Travelogue 16mm film by Els van Riel film-sountrack using hurdy-gurdy played (bowed) with off-cuts of film.
Between Cities in Sound (Eurostar) (2017)
a tone-poem. Commissioned by the Hermes Experiment for their Metropolis project, premiered for The Park Lane Group, St John’s Smith Square, London Instrumentation: Soprano, Bb clarinet & bass clarinet, harp, double-bass. Rough with the Smooth Concerto for Double Bass in the form of a Concerto Grosso for harp, theorbo, violin, harpsichord and string orchestra. Premiered in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. 2015. ~ R e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s : Henric Van Veldeke: Ik bid de liefde. Minnedichten Cd & Book publication with songs, Vrijdag, October 2016, Composed by Stevie Wishart & Gerrit Valkenaers, performed by the composers with Agnes De Graf. 2016 The Sound Of Gesture a mixed media music-video and research publication including CD, DVD, written musical analysis of the works, and an academic interview with Ludger Brümer on the nature of music and technology. SW001CD-DVD (2010) — coda — Exploring music’s unique ability to express new ideas on a level which transcends other routes of communication motivates her work as a composer (and improviser).
18 June 2018 - Eglise Royale, Brussels, Brussels
Extroit for large choir Newly commissioned Extroit to celebrate 200 years of Anglican Worship in Belgium, conducted by Piers Maxim, Musical Director at Malvern Abbey, for Evensong March 2018 - BBC Radio 3 Proem, Prelude & Fugue ( for piano solo) Joanna MacGregor, piano 11 Mar 2018 - Cambridge Magnificat & Nunc dimitis Concert, Corpus Christi Chapel Choir directed by Robin Walker. 7 Mar 2018 - Cambridge Magnificat & Nunc dimitis Choral Evensong (6.45pm), Corpus Christi Chapel Choir directed by Robin Walker. 18 Feb 2018 - Cambridge Magnificat & Nunc dimitis Choral Evensong (6pm), Corpus Christi Chapel Choir directed by Robin Walker. 16th Feb 2018 - Glasgow Proem, Prelude & Fugue ( for piano solo) premiere of new piano piece: Fridays At One: Joanna MacGregor at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, also BBC Radio Broadcast |
BiographyStevie Wishart’s passion for composing started at an early age, and her musical journey has been unusually rich and diverse including traditional and early music, as well as contemporary vocal and instrumental music.
As a composer with roots in improvisation and early music she also performs on violin, hurdy-gurdy (a stringed keyboard instrument going back to medieval times, with its strings bowed by the rim of a wheel giving a unique old-and-new sound which also resonates in Stevie’s music). Educated at the University of York, the University of Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and studying informally with John Cage in Edinburgh, her early career was playing with leading free jazz improvisers in London, Berlin, New York and Sydney while also launching her own ensemble Sinfonye and recordings for Decca, Hyperion Records and Glossa as well as many indie labels. She has performed and had her compositions played at major venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Festival Hall at London's Southbank Centre, the Sydney Opera House, St Peter’s Rome, the Royal Albert Hall, and at the BBC Proms. read more http://www.stevie-wishart.com MediaFor all media click here
Discography
Reviews…tasteful reworkings…the sound is superb…this release is miles above that standard and deserves an unbiased listen.”
CD: Hildegard, Limelight Magazine, May 2013 “5 Stars - ’ambient’ re-imaginings that give medievalism a modern twist…the voices of Sinfonye follow the melismatic, often wide-ranging lines with precision, fluency and sensitivity….I have a funny feeling that this disc could become a hit.” CD: Hildegard, Geoffrey Norris, The Telegraph, 26 Oct 2012 “…exquisite monodic harmonies…” CD: Hildegard, Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 Oct 2012 For more reviews click here Gallery & Press KitFor Press Pictures and Press Kit click here
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