Stevie Wishart

STEVIE WISHART | COMPOSER

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STEVIE WISHART
“Towards 50/50: programming new liturgical music by women composers”
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Seminar led by Dr Geoffrey Webber, with Dr Edward Wickham
May 2018
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STEVIE WISHART
Women in the Shadows
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | BBC Radio 3
Proem, Prelude & Fugue ( for piano solo) - WORLD PREMIERE
Joanna MacGregor, piano
March 2018
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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

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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

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Biography

Stevie Wishart explores medieval and contemporary extremes, using voices, ancient technologies such as the hurdy-gurdy, and emerging technologies of today. She studied composition at York University with Trevor Wishart, improvised and aleatoric music with John Cage in Edinburgh, postgraduate studies in early music (violin and voice) at the Guildhall, London and with a Vicente Cañada Blanch JRF at New College, University of Oxford, and through many collaboration.

The challenge of creating music for a wide range of contexts is important, such as composing for productions by Michèle Noiret (Théâtre National de Bruxelles) and Wayne McGregor, a large-scale choral work for a Proms commission with the BBC Singers & Sinfonye, and for the designer Philippe Starck. With the support of a Visiting Music Fellowship at the University of Cambridge she is currently composing a Double-Bass Concerto for the Orchestra of the Age on Enlightenment, London and The Handel and Haydn Society, Boston.

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).

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Discography

Vespers for St Hildegard
Original music by Stevie Wishart in celebration of St Hildegard of Bingen.
Decca Records. Released October 2012
Stevie Wishart (concept, voice, hurdy-gurdy, partitive orga)
Vivien Ellis, Jocelyn West, Victoria Couper, Emily Levy, Clemmie Franks, Emily Burn (vocals)
Bill Taylor (mediaeval harps ; Guy Sigsworth, handbells, portative organ)

“…exquisite monodic harmonies…” The Independent
Originally created as a concept-CD for Decca under their title "Hildegard" to commemorate Hildegard's canonisation in Rome in 2012, this is also large-scale Vespers of original compositions by Stevie Wishart for concert and semi-liturgical performance.

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