STEVIE WISHART | COMPOSER
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R e c e n t / o n g o i n g / f o r t h c o m i n g :
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.
Dusk
BBC radio 4 commission for the poet Alice Oswald with soundscapes by Stevie Wishart
June, 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.
Dusk
BBC radio 4 commission for the poet Alice Oswald with soundscapes by Stevie Wishart
June, 2018.
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STEVIE WISHART
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 Soul of a Woman Joanna MacGregor piano 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 More here |
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R e c e n t / o n g o i n g / f o r t h c o m i n g :
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.
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.
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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).
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.
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.
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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).
STEVIE WISHART Chronology of MUSIC COMPOSITIONS with scores and performance information
⨀ available on CD
Sultry Songs: music specially created for Barbara Raes’s (T)here & Here exhibition at the Europalia Arts Festival ‘Indonesia’, Bozar, Brussels, 10th October 2017 - 21st January 2018. For the opening for press and VIPs including the King of Belgium we performed Sultry Songs which has three components: acapella songs for 4 voices, solo hurdy-gurdy improvisations based upon gamelan music and medieval chant, and the sound-track which I composed for the video based upon minimal mechanical sounds of the hurdy-gurdy.
18 February & 4 March
Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH,
16th February
premiere of new piano piece: Fridays At One: Joanna MacGregor at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
BBC Radio Broadcast
En Fugue Music sound-track for - A Light's Travelogue by Els van Riel (funded by the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), Brussels
Instrumentation: hurdy-gurdy played (bowed) with off-cuts of film, July 2017
‘Gloam’ solo Hurdy-gurdy music composed and improvised on the duskish cusp of music and noise.
Recorded July, 2017 and currently in progress for vinyl and CD release 2018
Stillness: live music performed and improvised on solo hurdy-gurdy
To conclude Nik Gaffney's photographic explorations of Stillness and the beginning of our year-long transiency at FoAM Brussels, we invite you to join us for a unique event. Stillness was a year long series of experiments with ethereality, materiality and time. Prints and books from the series will be presented together for the first time in the FoAM Studio with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte. Feb. 7. 2016
Out of the Mists, for harpsichord and piano 3rd August 2017
A tone poem for harpsichord and piano inspired by the mists of the River Dart
world premiere performed by Joanna Macgregor - piano, Jane Chapman - harpsichord
⨀ Strahlender Himmel for soprano and piano 2017
Commissioned in honour of Helen Buchholtz, by Danielle Roster, Cid Femme, Luxembourg.
⨀ The Henric Songs - Incidental songs from Literair filmconcert ‘HENRIC’ for solo or duo alto voice and instrumental accompaniment
2013-2016
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, Belgium
i In den zî, daz die rôsen (solo alto & solo instrument accompaniment)
ii Diu minne betwanc Salomône (2 altos & solo instrument accompaniment)
iii Als dan de vogels vrolijk Zingen (2 altos & solo instrument accompaniment)
iv Het hebben die kalde nechte gedaan (solo alto & solo instrument accompaniment)
On texts by Henic van Valdeke (c.1150–1210)
Between Cities in Sound (Eurostar) - a tone-poem. April 2016
Instrumentation: soprano, Bb clarinet & bass clarinet, harp, double-bass.
Commissioned by the Hermes Ensemble for their Metropolis project.
Premier April 19 2016 for The Park Lane Group, St John’s Smith Square, London
Rough with the Smooth - Concerto for double bass and orchestra in the form of a concerto grosso May 2015
For string orchestra, harp, theorbo, harpsichord, commissioned by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, premiered in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, May 2015.
⨀ Songs for Yuletide & Christentide for upper-voice choir 2014-2015
i Of Mary, a maide/ Te Deum Laudamus for 3-part upper-voice choir/choristers
ii Lets be merry as bird on berry for 4-part upper-voice choir/ choristers
iii Lullaby for Freya (after the Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh ar Slànaigheir (the Lullaby of our Saviour) for 4-part upper-voice choir/choristers
Commissioned by St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, University of Cambridge.
⨀ Happy Song, for three upper-voices 2014
Commissioned by Voice, London
The Seasons - Cantata for SATB choir, 2013/2014
i Winter. Text from the poem Carol by Rowan Williams (with permission), for SATB choir
ii Autumn. Text from the poem Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon, for SATB choir, CT, A, T soloists, strings orchestra/ensemble, 2 pianos.
iii Summer. Text from Summer Song by Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924). SATB Choir & semi-choir
iv Spring. Text from Dayspring by Trevor Blakemore (1879 - 1953).
For SATB Choir, tenor solo, soloists/semi-choir and string orchestra/ensemble (with thanks to Robin Zebaida).
Commissioned by the Ipswich Choral Society. Premiere by the Ipswich Choral Society, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 2014, with special thanks to Maureen Fell.
Each movement may be performed separately.
⨀ Vesperae S. Hildegardis - Vespers for St. Hildegard for SATB choir, soloists/semi-choir (S,A,T), hand-bells, carillon, percussion, harp and organ 2012/2013. Also available, version for SATB choir and organ.
Commissioned for the York Early Music Festival & Decca
i Introitus: Sancta Prelude & Karitas habundat
ii Invitatorium: Deus in adiutorium
iii Antiphona: O virtus sapientie
iv Psalmus CIX: Dixit Dominus tertii toni
v O Virtus Sapientie alio modo
vi Antiphona: O Beata Infantia
vii Psalmus CXI: Beatus Vir septimi toni
viii O beata infantia alio modo
ix Antiphona: Nunc gaudeant
x Psalmus CX: Confitebor tibi octavi toni
xi Antiphona: O successores
xii Psalmus CXII: Laudate pueri secundi toni
xiii O successores alio modo
xiv Capitulum: Proverbia IX, v.1
xv Responsorium: O quam preciosa
xvi Hymnus: Iste confessor
xvii Antiphona: O frondens virga
xviii Magnificat primi toni
xix O frondens Virga alio modo
xx Commemoratio: O doctor optime
xxi Conclusio: Deo gratias
⨀ O Choruscans Lux on a cantus firmus by Hildegard of Bingen, 2012
version1: Three upper-voices with optional SATB Choir
version 2: Three upper-voices (solo or semi-choir)
Commissioned by the Southbank Centre for Voice. Premiere by Voice at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March 2012
Canti del Paradiso for 3 upper voices, small-harp and hurdy-gurdy, 2012
i The song of Beatrice
ii Credo
iii Danza dei santi
on texts from Dante's Il canto xxiv del paradiso
Commissioned for La Fede di Dante – il canto xxiv del paradiso, at the Chiesa del Gesu, Rome in the presence of His Eminence Cardinal Ravasi Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura of the Vatican, Rome (and live for RAI TV).
Out of this World for SATB Choir, 2011
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
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.
Each movement may be performed separately.
Prelude La Folie d’Erasmus, for solo viola d gamba, 2011
From a 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.
⨀ Frozen Particles for solo violin and pre-recorded violin sound-transformations 2008
(part of Sound of Gesture: 10 solos for violin and pre-recorded violin sound-transformations, ongoing for publication July 2016) Commissioned as part of residencies at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Frozen Particles version for Viola, 2010
Solo viola Commissioned by q-o2, Brussels, Belgium
Premiered by Julia Eckhardt, Netwerk, Aalst, 2010
Instrumentation: solo viola and tape
Viriditas,
A music piece especially composed for the formal reception for FoAM, nadine and gRig (the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators), a society of people exploring the realities emerging from mixing art, science and technology.
Performed by Stevie Wishart - hurdy-gurdy and alto, and Penelope Turner - soprano and cello, with a solo by an archer from Grand Serment Royal et de Saint-Georges des Arbalétriers de Bruxelles, Impasse du Borgendael - Koningsplein 7-9 Place Royale, 1000 Brussels. 8.30 - 11p.m October 30, 2009.
The premiere of Stevie Wishart’s Viriditas, a musical pece for two voices, hurdy-gurdy and cello. The performance is based on Hildegard von Bingen’s Lingua Ignota and her vision of Viriditas, the greening energy behind all life.
http://grig.info/viriditas
The performance will be followed by a guided tour of Saint George’s guild-hall and initiation into the guild. With: Stevie Wishart & Penelope Turner, members of the Saint George's Guild.
http://www.arbaletriers-saintgeorges.be October
https://fo.am/grig_froesjels/
Reduction String Quartet, 2008
Allegretto con fuoco String Quartet, 2008
Commissioned as part of Sense Dance & Music project for Ipswich Schools, by Wayne Mcgregor & members of Britten Sinfonia, Ipswich 2008
⨀ The Myth Of Europa, opera-miniature for female singer, piano, theorbo, hurdy gurdy, 2007
⨀ Iced, for chamber orchestra, theremin and live computer-generated sound, sound-transformation and multi-speaker sound-diffusion, 2004. Commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, Valenciennes & Brussels 2004-2005.
⨀ Illuminations, for String Orchestra, 2003
Commissioned by the Ten Tors Orchestra, England, with funds from South-West Arts, UK and the Chard Festival of Women in Music. Premiered by the Ten Tors Orchestra, conducted by Simon Ible, at Holyrood Hall, Chard on 1st June, 2003. With special thanks to Angela Willes and Simon Ible.
⨀ Ploschinantz, 2010 for solo soprano and hurdy-gurdy (or viola)
Commissioned by Fo.am, Brussels
⨀ Island Universes, for instrumental ensemble: viola, alto flute, bass clarinet, Tuba, harp, live sound transformation on LexP5 and the mechanical sounds of four slide projectors. With visuals by Ludo Engels: 35mm slides using the four projectors working as cross-faded pairs being projected onto two screens, 2004.
Commissioned by the new music group Q02 in Brussels with funds from the Flemish Government, in production with Concertgebouw, Bruges, and De Singel, Antwerp.
Arrow, for Counter-tenor solo, Organ, and Strings 2005
Commissioned by Augsburg, Pax Festival (Germany). Premiered August 2005. With special thanks to Thomas Hoeft.
⨀ Azeruz for Three-part upper voices with optional instrumental accompaniment, 1997
⨀ Subrosa for upper-voice choir 1997
i Secret spaces
ii Twisted values in a hidden world
iii Moniso
Commission by the Oxford Girls’ Choir, director Richard Vendome with funds from the Foundation for Sports and Arts, UK. Premiered Mansfield College Chapel, Oxford, December 2001. With special thanks to Richard Vendome.
⨀ available on CD
Sultry Songs: music specially created for Barbara Raes’s (T)here & Here exhibition at the Europalia Arts Festival ‘Indonesia’, Bozar, Brussels, 10th October 2017 - 21st January 2018. For the opening for press and VIPs including the King of Belgium we performed Sultry Songs which has three components: acapella songs for 4 voices, solo hurdy-gurdy improvisations based upon gamelan music and medieval chant, and the sound-track which I composed for the video based upon minimal mechanical sounds of the hurdy-gurdy.
18 February & 4 March
Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH,
16th February
premiere of new piano piece: Fridays At One: Joanna MacGregor at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
BBC Radio Broadcast
En Fugue Music sound-track for - A Light's Travelogue by Els van Riel (funded by the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), Brussels
Instrumentation: hurdy-gurdy played (bowed) with off-cuts of film, July 2017
‘Gloam’ solo Hurdy-gurdy music composed and improvised on the duskish cusp of music and noise.
Recorded July, 2017 and currently in progress for vinyl and CD release 2018
Stillness: live music performed and improvised on solo hurdy-gurdy
To conclude Nik Gaffney's photographic explorations of Stillness and the beginning of our year-long transiency at FoAM Brussels, we invite you to join us for a unique event. Stillness was a year long series of experiments with ethereality, materiality and time. Prints and books from the series will be presented together for the first time in the FoAM Studio with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte. Feb. 7. 2016
Out of the Mists, for harpsichord and piano 3rd August 2017
A tone poem for harpsichord and piano inspired by the mists of the River Dart
world premiere performed by Joanna Macgregor - piano, Jane Chapman - harpsichord
⨀ Strahlender Himmel for soprano and piano 2017
Commissioned in honour of Helen Buchholtz, by Danielle Roster, Cid Femme, Luxembourg.
⨀ The Henric Songs - Incidental songs from Literair filmconcert ‘HENRIC’ for solo or duo alto voice and instrumental accompaniment
2013-2016
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, Belgium
i In den zî, daz die rôsen (solo alto & solo instrument accompaniment)
ii Diu minne betwanc Salomône (2 altos & solo instrument accompaniment)
iii Als dan de vogels vrolijk Zingen (2 altos & solo instrument accompaniment)
iv Het hebben die kalde nechte gedaan (solo alto & solo instrument accompaniment)
On texts by Henic van Valdeke (c.1150–1210)
Between Cities in Sound (Eurostar) - a tone-poem. April 2016
Instrumentation: soprano, Bb clarinet & bass clarinet, harp, double-bass.
Commissioned by the Hermes Ensemble for their Metropolis project.
Premier April 19 2016 for The Park Lane Group, St John’s Smith Square, London
Rough with the Smooth - Concerto for double bass and orchestra in the form of a concerto grosso May 2015
For string orchestra, harp, theorbo, harpsichord, commissioned by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, premiered in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, May 2015.
⨀ Songs for Yuletide & Christentide for upper-voice choir 2014-2015
i Of Mary, a maide/ Te Deum Laudamus for 3-part upper-voice choir/choristers
ii Lets be merry as bird on berry for 4-part upper-voice choir/ choristers
iii Lullaby for Freya (after the Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh ar Slànaigheir (the Lullaby of our Saviour) for 4-part upper-voice choir/choristers
Commissioned by St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, University of Cambridge.
⨀ Happy Song, for three upper-voices 2014
Commissioned by Voice, London
The Seasons - Cantata for SATB choir, 2013/2014
i Winter. Text from the poem Carol by Rowan Williams (with permission), for SATB choir
ii Autumn. Text from the poem Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon, for SATB choir, CT, A, T soloists, strings orchestra/ensemble, 2 pianos.
iii Summer. Text from Summer Song by Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924). SATB Choir & semi-choir
iv Spring. Text from Dayspring by Trevor Blakemore (1879 - 1953).
For SATB Choir, tenor solo, soloists/semi-choir and string orchestra/ensemble (with thanks to Robin Zebaida).
Commissioned by the Ipswich Choral Society. Premiere by the Ipswich Choral Society, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 2014, with special thanks to Maureen Fell.
Each movement may be performed separately.
⨀ Vesperae S. Hildegardis - Vespers for St. Hildegard for SATB choir, soloists/semi-choir (S,A,T), hand-bells, carillon, percussion, harp and organ 2012/2013. Also available, version for SATB choir and organ.
Commissioned for the York Early Music Festival & Decca
i Introitus: Sancta Prelude & Karitas habundat
ii Invitatorium: Deus in adiutorium
iii Antiphona: O virtus sapientie
iv Psalmus CIX: Dixit Dominus tertii toni
v O Virtus Sapientie alio modo
vi Antiphona: O Beata Infantia
vii Psalmus CXI: Beatus Vir septimi toni
viii O beata infantia alio modo
ix Antiphona: Nunc gaudeant
x Psalmus CX: Confitebor tibi octavi toni
xi Antiphona: O successores
xii Psalmus CXII: Laudate pueri secundi toni
xiii O successores alio modo
xiv Capitulum: Proverbia IX, v.1
xv Responsorium: O quam preciosa
xvi Hymnus: Iste confessor
xvii Antiphona: O frondens virga
xviii Magnificat primi toni
xix O frondens Virga alio modo
xx Commemoratio: O doctor optime
xxi Conclusio: Deo gratias
⨀ O Choruscans Lux on a cantus firmus by Hildegard of Bingen, 2012
version1: Three upper-voices with optional SATB Choir
version 2: Three upper-voices (solo or semi-choir)
Commissioned by the Southbank Centre for Voice. Premiere by Voice at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March 2012
Canti del Paradiso for 3 upper voices, small-harp and hurdy-gurdy, 2012
i The song of Beatrice
ii Credo
iii Danza dei santi
on texts from Dante's Il canto xxiv del paradiso
Commissioned for La Fede di Dante – il canto xxiv del paradiso, at the Chiesa del Gesu, Rome in the presence of His Eminence Cardinal Ravasi Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura of the Vatican, Rome (and live for RAI TV).
Out of this World for SATB Choir, 2011
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
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.
Each movement may be performed separately.
Prelude La Folie d’Erasmus, for solo viola d gamba, 2011
From a 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.
⨀ Frozen Particles for solo violin and pre-recorded violin sound-transformations 2008
(part of Sound of Gesture: 10 solos for violin and pre-recorded violin sound-transformations, ongoing for publication July 2016) Commissioned as part of residencies at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Frozen Particles version for Viola, 2010
Solo viola Commissioned by q-o2, Brussels, Belgium
Premiered by Julia Eckhardt, Netwerk, Aalst, 2010
Instrumentation: solo viola and tape
Viriditas,
A music piece especially composed for the formal reception for FoAM, nadine and gRig (the Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators), a society of people exploring the realities emerging from mixing art, science and technology.
Performed by Stevie Wishart - hurdy-gurdy and alto, and Penelope Turner - soprano and cello, with a solo by an archer from Grand Serment Royal et de Saint-Georges des Arbalétriers de Bruxelles, Impasse du Borgendael - Koningsplein 7-9 Place Royale, 1000 Brussels. 8.30 - 11p.m October 30, 2009.
The premiere of Stevie Wishart’s Viriditas, a musical pece for two voices, hurdy-gurdy and cello. The performance is based on Hildegard von Bingen’s Lingua Ignota and her vision of Viriditas, the greening energy behind all life.
http://grig.info/viriditas
The performance will be followed by a guided tour of Saint George’s guild-hall and initiation into the guild. With: Stevie Wishart & Penelope Turner, members of the Saint George's Guild.
http://www.arbaletriers-saintgeorges.be October
https://fo.am/grig_froesjels/
Reduction String Quartet, 2008
Allegretto con fuoco String Quartet, 2008
Commissioned as part of Sense Dance & Music project for Ipswich Schools, by Wayne Mcgregor & members of Britten Sinfonia, Ipswich 2008
⨀ The Myth Of Europa, opera-miniature for female singer, piano, theorbo, hurdy gurdy, 2007
⨀ Iced, for chamber orchestra, theremin and live computer-generated sound, sound-transformation and multi-speaker sound-diffusion, 2004. Commissioned by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Belgium and Art Zoyd, Transfrontalier de Productions et de Créations Musicales, Valenciennes & Brussels 2004-2005.
⨀ Illuminations, for String Orchestra, 2003
Commissioned by the Ten Tors Orchestra, England, with funds from South-West Arts, UK and the Chard Festival of Women in Music. Premiered by the Ten Tors Orchestra, conducted by Simon Ible, at Holyrood Hall, Chard on 1st June, 2003. With special thanks to Angela Willes and Simon Ible.
⨀ Ploschinantz, 2010 for solo soprano and hurdy-gurdy (or viola)
Commissioned by Fo.am, Brussels
⨀ Island Universes, for instrumental ensemble: viola, alto flute, bass clarinet, Tuba, harp, live sound transformation on LexP5 and the mechanical sounds of four slide projectors. With visuals by Ludo Engels: 35mm slides using the four projectors working as cross-faded pairs being projected onto two screens, 2004.
Commissioned by the new music group Q02 in Brussels with funds from the Flemish Government, in production with Concertgebouw, Bruges, and De Singel, Antwerp.
Arrow, for Counter-tenor solo, Organ, and Strings 2005
Commissioned by Augsburg, Pax Festival (Germany). Premiered August 2005. With special thanks to Thomas Hoeft.
⨀ Azeruz for Three-part upper voices with optional instrumental accompaniment, 1997
⨀ Subrosa for upper-voice choir 1997
i Secret spaces
ii Twisted values in a hidden world
iii Moniso
Commission by the Oxford Girls’ Choir, director Richard Vendome with funds from the Foundation for Sports and Arts, UK. Premiered Mansfield College Chapel, Oxford, December 2001. With special thanks to Richard Vendome.
18 February & 4 March 2017
Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH,
16th February
premiere of new piano piece: Fridays At One: Joanna MacGregor at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
BBC Radio Broadcast
10 March 2016
Out of this World
Lecture recital from Stevie Wishart
This will be a musical journey that interweaves the musical spirituality of St. Hildegard of Bingen with that of a living composer who has been deeply involved with the music of Hildegard from her student days up to the present.
Music programme:
O choruscans lux on a cantus firmus by Hildegard of Bingen (2012) by Stevie Wishart
Azeruz (1999) by Stevie Wishart
Songs from the Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations (ed. & arranged by Stevie Wishart)
Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH,
16th February
premiere of new piano piece: Fridays At One: Joanna MacGregor at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
BBC Radio Broadcast
10 March 2016
Out of this World
Lecture recital from Stevie Wishart
This will be a musical journey that interweaves the musical spirituality of St. Hildegard of Bingen with that of a living composer who has been deeply involved with the music of Hildegard from her student days up to the present.
Music programme:
O choruscans lux on a cantus firmus by Hildegard of Bingen (2012) by Stevie Wishart
Azeruz (1999) by Stevie Wishart
Songs from the Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations (ed. & arranged by Stevie Wishart)
8 March 2016
Reduction
Quartet for wind instruments
i'klectik art lab
London Festival of Women in Music: New Music by Women Composers
Catherine Pluygers - Oboes
Simon Desorgher - Flutes
Ian Mitchell - Clarinets
Alan Tomlinson - Trombone
Includes music by: Michiko Shimanuki, Sonja Grossner, Avril Anderson, Shulamit Ran, Margaret Lucy Wilkins, Stevie Wishart & Yuko Ohara
Reduction
Quartet for wind instruments
i'klectik art lab
London Festival of Women in Music: New Music by Women Composers
Catherine Pluygers - Oboes
Simon Desorgher - Flutes
Ian Mitchell - Clarinets
Alan Tomlinson - Trombone
Includes music by: Michiko Shimanuki, Sonja Grossner, Avril Anderson, Shulamit Ran, Margaret Lucy Wilkins, Stevie Wishart & Yuko Ohara
7 February 2016
Stillness
16:00-20:00
photos by Nik Gafney, music by Stevie Wishart
Stillness: live music performed and improvised on solo hurdy-gurdy, FoAM Studio 7 February 2016
Nik Gaffney’s photographic explorations of Stillness with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte.Brussels Belgium https://fo.am/stillness/
FoAM - Brussels
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
1080 Brussels
Belgium
http://fo.am/stillness/
Stillness
16:00-20:00
photos by Nik Gafney, music by Stevie Wishart
Stillness: live music performed and improvised on solo hurdy-gurdy, FoAM Studio 7 February 2016
Nik Gaffney’s photographic explorations of Stillness with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte.Brussels Belgium https://fo.am/stillness/
FoAM - Brussels
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
1080 Brussels
Belgium
http://fo.am/stillness/
3 January 2016
Echoes of the Past in the Present
BBC Radio3,
Stevie Wishart presents her music compositions in a New Year edition of the Early Music Show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tk6y3
Echoes of the Past in the Present
BBC Radio3,
Stevie Wishart presents her music compositions in a New Year edition of the Early Music Show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tk6y3
FutureFest
14-15 March 2015, Vinopolis, London
What might the world be like in decades to come?
FutureFest is Nesta’s flagship weekend event of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to excite and challenge perceptions of the future.
http://futurefest.org
14-15 March 2015, Vinopolis, London
What might the world be like in decades to come?
FutureFest is Nesta’s flagship weekend event of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to excite and challenge perceptions of the future.
http://futurefest.org
New orchestral co-commission for Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Handel & Haydn Society
12 May 2015
19:00 - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
2014/2015 will see the premiere of a new work by Stevie Wishart written for double bass and period orchestra: 'Concerto à Double Entendre' is a new work co-commssioned by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for its principal bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku, and by The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, artistic director Harry Christophers, for its principal bass player Rob Nairn.
Boston H & H Society | OAE
12 May 2015
19:00 - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
2014/2015 will see the premiere of a new work by Stevie Wishart written for double bass and period orchestra: 'Concerto à Double Entendre' is a new work co-commssioned by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for its principal bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku, and by The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, artistic director Harry Christophers, for its principal bass player Rob Nairn.
Boston H & H Society | OAE
P A S T H I G H L I G H T S
13 December 2014
St Nicholas' Church, Winterborne Kingston
Stevie Wishart performs her composition ' Strings, Wheel, and Fingers' for Solo hurdy-gurdy
Bowed strings are among our oldest musical instruments. The idea of the violin bow seems to be of Arabic ancestry, but the invention of the hurdy-gurdy, with its bow in the form of a wheel, is specifically of European heritage: its sound is utterly unique: both timeless & musically undefinable.
St Nicholas' Church, Winterborne Kingston
Stevie Wishart performs her composition ' Strings, Wheel, and Fingers' for Solo hurdy-gurdy
Bowed strings are among our oldest musical instruments. The idea of the violin bow seems to be of Arabic ancestry, but the invention of the hurdy-gurdy, with its bow in the form of a wheel, is specifically of European heritage: its sound is utterly unique: both timeless & musically undefinable.
13 November - 19 December 2014
Oxford, Bristol, Taunton, birmingham, Dudley, London, Gateshead, Newcastle, Blyth, Northwood
Voice, Patterns of Love tour dates announced! New composition by Stevie Wishart
Patterns of Love is a new touring programme of songs that explore the beauty, heartache and humour of love from medieval to contemporary, including Shakespearean song, 16th century catches, and folksong arrangements from the UK and Ireland.
Voice have commissioned new works for Patterns of Love by five leading British composers: Stevie Wishart, Helen Chadwick, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Emily Levy, and Marcus Davidson, making this programme unique.
Oxford, Bristol, Taunton, birmingham, Dudley, London, Gateshead, Newcastle, Blyth, Northwood
Voice, Patterns of Love tour dates announced! New composition by Stevie Wishart
Patterns of Love is a new touring programme of songs that explore the beauty, heartache and humour of love from medieval to contemporary, including Shakespearean song, 16th century catches, and folksong arrangements from the UK and Ireland.
Voice have commissioned new works for Patterns of Love by five leading British composers: Stevie Wishart, Helen Chadwick, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Emily Levy, and Marcus Davidson, making this programme unique.
Stevie speaks at the EU
05 November 2014
Office of Lazio Region Representation in Brussels, Rond Point Schuman 14
Stevie has been invited as the composer to contribute to a symposium “In need of key changes”, an event organised in the framework of Italian Semester of Presidency at the EU. November 5th 2014. More info here
05 November 2014
Office of Lazio Region Representation in Brussels, Rond Point Schuman 14
Stevie has been invited as the composer to contribute to a symposium “In need of key changes”, an event organised in the framework of Italian Semester of Presidency at the EU. November 5th 2014. More info here
13th October 2014
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London
CMPCP/IMR Performance/Research seminar
Stevie speaks about performance at a CMPCP/IMR seminar. More info here
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London
CMPCP/IMR Performance/Research seminar
Stevie speaks about performance at a CMPCP/IMR seminar. More info here
21 September 2014
13:00-17:00,Clapham Common, London
Colourscape 2014
Pied Piper by Stevie Wishart
Eye Music commission 2014
The Pied Piper - is a promenade-style performance especially created for Colourscape. As you, the public, explore Colourscape - follow the performers and become involved in the opera.
In Stevie Wishart’s Colourscape re-working of the famous 14th century story, the Pied Piper, playing his magical music, is employed to lure away the rats from Hamelin. But he isn’t paid, so once more plays magical music, this time leading all the children away through a cavernous mountain into an enchanted world of colour and sound - here played out in the labyrinth of Colourscape.
Follow the Pied Piper (recorder player Roselyn Maynard) as she leads the rats and children on a journey through colour and space. Become the townspeople in the cast.
With special thanks to Richard Vendome and the Oxford Girls’ Choir, the parents of the singers, John Hooper, Osbert Farnaby, and Toni Wishart.
13:00-17:00,Clapham Common, London
Colourscape 2014
Pied Piper by Stevie Wishart
Eye Music commission 2014
The Pied Piper - is a promenade-style performance especially created for Colourscape. As you, the public, explore Colourscape - follow the performers and become involved in the opera.
In Stevie Wishart’s Colourscape re-working of the famous 14th century story, the Pied Piper, playing his magical music, is employed to lure away the rats from Hamelin. But he isn’t paid, so once more plays magical music, this time leading all the children away through a cavernous mountain into an enchanted world of colour and sound - here played out in the labyrinth of Colourscape.
Follow the Pied Piper (recorder player Roselyn Maynard) as she leads the rats and children on a journey through colour and space. Become the townspeople in the cast.
With special thanks to Richard Vendome and the Oxford Girls’ Choir, the parents of the singers, John Hooper, Osbert Farnaby, and Toni Wishart.
09-12 September 2014
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II
Following the success of the first Perspectives on Musical Improvisation (PoMI) conference in Oxford in September 2012, a second conference (PoMI II) will take place in Oxford on 9th-12th September 2014. As with the 2012 event, this conference will address the many faces of improvisation from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Consisting only of plenary sessions, over the course of four days, the conference will include papers, panel discussions, poster presentations and musical performances.
Speakers for the conference include:
Stevie Wishart (Composer and improviser)
Prof Joanna MacGregor (Royal Academy of Music, London and concert artist)
Dr Laudan Nooshin (City University London)
Prof Gary Peters (York St John University)
Prof Eric Porter (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Eddie Prévost (Percussion and drums)
Dr Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford)
Prof Geraint Wiggins (QML, London)
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II
Following the success of the first Perspectives on Musical Improvisation (PoMI) conference in Oxford in September 2012, a second conference (PoMI II) will take place in Oxford on 9th-12th September 2014. As with the 2012 event, this conference will address the many faces of improvisation from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Consisting only of plenary sessions, over the course of four days, the conference will include papers, panel discussions, poster presentations and musical performances.
Speakers for the conference include:
Stevie Wishart (Composer and improviser)
Prof Joanna MacGregor (Royal Academy of Music, London and concert artist)
Dr Laudan Nooshin (City University London)
Prof Gary Peters (York St John University)
Prof Eric Porter (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Eddie Prévost (Percussion and drums)
Dr Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford)
Prof Geraint Wiggins (QML, London)
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16 August 2014
22:15, Royal Albert Hall |
BBC Proms: Aurora Orchesatra & Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart performs Dobrinka Tabakova, 'Spinning a Yarn' for solo violin and hurdy gurdy at the BBC Proms 2014. Alexandra Wood violin, Proms debut artist | Stevie Wishart hurdy-gurdy | Chantage | Aurora Orchestra | Nicholas Collon conductor |
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13 April 2014
5.30pm - Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK |
WORLD PREMIERE of 'Cantata for the Seasons' at Aldeburgh
Ipswich Choral Society marks its 190th Anniversary with the world première of a newly commissioned work, 'Cantata for the Seasons' by composer Stevie Wishart, written as a homage to Benjamin Britten. "Britten is one of those composers who has been a formative influence in my vocal writing. Growing up in East Anglia, I attended master-classes at Snape as a child, and so fell under the Snape/Britten spell. I also adore the open landscapes of Suffolk - again childhood haunts - and so look to this landscape for inspiration.” - Stevie Wishart Music by Stevie Wishart. Texts by Rowan Williams, Trevor Blakemore, Edith Nesbit, Siegfried Sassoon. Commissioned by the Ipswich Choral Society. Ipswich Choral Society |
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February 2014
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Press release: Stevie Wishart : Premieres in Aldeburgh, Southbank & Boston
Click here to read the latest press release on stevie's upcoming premieres. |
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27 February 2014
20:00 - Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge RSVP event (free) |
Concanenda perform their selection of pieces from Stevie Wishart's 'Vespers for St. Hildegard'
This is a show-case performance. Free entrance but reservations recommended: info@concanenda.com |
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2013-2014
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Stevie Wishart receives Phase 4 visiting fellowship from Cambridge University
Stevie Wishart will be joining CMPCP in the fourth phase of its fellowships programme. She intends to introduce a research strand into a forthcoming commission for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, using insights from historically informed performance within the context of a newly created work. |
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July 2013
York Early Music Festival |
Vespers for St Hildegard, York Early Music Festival
A creative re-imagining of a choral evensong, traditionally known as Vespers and sung at dusk, devised in honour of a truly remarkable woman – Hildegard of Bingen. Performed in St Peter’s Rome in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in October, the piece will be given its first concert performance in St Peter’s York. Composed and directed by Stevie Wishart. |
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October 2012
St.Peters Basilica |
Stevie Wishart & Sinfonye perform for the Pope
Sinfonye & Stevie Wishart performed at the opening mass of the Synod of Bishops - the very mass in which honour was given to Hildegard, live and on air to millions across the globe as part of a week long celebration of Hildegard. |
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August 2011
BBC Proms, Cadogan Hall |
WORLD PREMIERE at BBC Proms 2011
Stevie Wishart and Sinfonye join Robert Hollingworth and the BBC singers for an innovative performance at the Proms 2011. With a programme of Hildegard, Britten, Birtwistle & and world premiere of Wishart's own piece, commissioned by the BBC Singers. |
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