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STEVIE WISHART
with ENSEMBLE VARIANCES 
at Institut français du Royaume-Uni


16 June 2023, 7pm


Humain non humain


“The cello acts as a mediator between the ensemble and the deep-sea sounds… and the results are strikingly beautiful, sometimes discomforting, and in the end profoundly elegiac.” The Guardian

Nature has been the inspiration of composers for centuries. Now, through the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, the virtuosi musicians of Ensemble Variances are urging audiences through the power of music to take note of the changes to our planet and to our friends in the animal kingdom. Artistic Director Thierry Pécou creates a programme which stimulates our appreciation of nature’s lessons with some of his own compositions along with contemporary sounds by François-Bernard Mâche and Stevie Wishart.
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Institut français du Royaume-Uni 
Cultural Centre 
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT

https://www.institut-francais.org.uk

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STEVIE WISHART at The Barbican 
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Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound

The Hermes Experiment


Revel in the idiosyncratic sounds of vibrant contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment.  The Hermes Experiment’s distinctive sound is their superpower.

ALSO ON THE PROGRAMME : 
Oliver Leith  - Mira Calix - Jethro Cooke & The Hermes Experiment - & Shiva Feshareki

Thu 26 Jan 2023, 19:30,
Milton Court Concert Hall, BARBICAN


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collaborates with ALICE OSWALD on
The Same Blackbird

​Oxford - 17 July 2022


To mark the quartercentenary of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald is publishing a ‘postal performance’ of new music and poetry.

The Same Blackbird contains two excerpts from Strathmore – a scrupulous transcription of blackbird song by Stevie Wishart – and Blackbird Rhapsody, a response by Alice Oswald. 

The Same Blackbird has been composed by Stevie Wishart and Alice Oswald as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations for Oxford Botanic Garden. It contains recordings of blackbird song, some made by Geoff Sample in 2015 and some by Stevie Wishart in 2021. Stevie has transcribed the songs for violin and Alice has written a response to both the bird and the violin to which Stevie has in turn responded. This three way conversation, between a bird and two humans marks the beginning of a year-long listening to the garden, the results of which will be performed in July 2022.

More info here : https://obga.web.ox.ac.uk/alice-oswald-same-blackbird

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VOICE  launch new cd "Hildegard Portraits" at the Spitalfields Festival. 

12 July 2022, 9pm

Voice launch their new album ‘Hildegard Portraits’, which includes a number of works by Stevie Wishart, on Somm Recordings with this special live show as part of Spitalfields Music Festival.

​‘Hildegard Transfigured’ – This collaborative piece of concert-theatre, uses live visuals, text and music to celebrate Hildegard of Bingen’s work as a composer, visionary, and woman.

https://spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/events/hildegard-transfigured/
July 2022


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Stevie Wishart introducing and playing the Hurdy-Gurdy!


joins a line-up of musicians for a day at the Westacre Theatre in Norfolk in support of Ukraine.

Sunday 3rd July, 11am - 2pm 

Featuring..

Harpist, Xenia Horne
String Quartet featuring Emma Crossley and David Bucknall
Guitarist, Estevão Devides
Telemann Concerto for 4 violins, performed by Ben Wragg, Mitch McGugan, Emma Crossley & Joseph Wragg
Turkish/Eastern Folk Ensemble, Firdevs Éké and the Buhara Ensemble
Stevie Wishart introducing and playing the Hurdy-Gurdy!
Virtuoso Violinist, Ben Wragg & Ukrainian Contemporary Singer, Bogdana.

https://thelittleboxoffice.com/westacre/event/view/160264

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Colourscape at 2022 Sevenoaks Festival
Saturday June 18th
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Colourscape comes to the Sevenoaks Festival for the ninth year running.   A day of free-flowing music in our Moonarooni Colourscape structure will open the 2022 Sevenoaks Festival.   A day of music with the extraordinary Hurdy-Gurdy player, Stevie Wishart and movement artist, Jemima Brown

https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event4.html

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COMPOSING WITH BIRDS


"I have become fascinated with birdsong as a way to learn music and train my ears. Though very complex and nuanced, birdsong remains accessible and inclusive, whereas complex contemporary music can be much less so. ... "

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE : ​https://fo.am/blog/2019/12/02/composing-birds/

More Bird Music : here 

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FoAM
​a transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday life - 
https://fo.am/about/

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BLACKBIRD - moderato e piacevole
extract from Voicing the Dawn for voices and pre-recorded dawn-chorus by Stevie Wishart
composed by the birds’ dawn chorus listened to in two locations in Wallonia, Belgium Auby a “site protégé” (le vallon du ruisseau des Aleines) 49° 48′ nord, 5° 10′ est & Viroinval 50°00′33′′N 4°39′59′′E

Soloists in order of appearance:
Blackbird (prelude) - Chaffinch_Vink: Allegretto e staccato - Blackcap_Zwartkop: Vivace giocoso - Blackbird_Merel: Moderato e piacevole -  Robin_Roodborst (two singers in close harmony): Senza misura - Chiffchaff_Tjiftjaf: A tempo giusto - Wren_Winterkoning: Cantabile - Wren_Winterkoning (tenors and basses): Plainchant

Commissioned by Ex Cathedra, and premiered in Hereford Cathedral  in 2019; Revised version commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge, premiered at dawn in the Gezelletuin on 19th September 2021 by Pluto Ensemble.

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VOICE TRIO release new cd to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the canonisation and doctorate of the church of St Hildegard of Bingen.
 
Stevie's original works and arrangements with Voice : 

Responsorium: O clarissima mater
Antiphona:O virtus sapientie
Aseruz trium vocum *
Antiphona: O mirum admirandum
O Choruscans lux (choir version)*
Antiphona: O orzchis ecclesia
Antiphona: Unde quocumque venientes
Antiphona: Nunc gaudeant *

https://somm-recordings.com/recording/hildegard-portraits/

June 2022

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ALDEBURGH RESIDENCY 

Stevie Wishart and Ensemble Variances's Thierry Pécou share a creative retreat at Aldeburgh


​From 24-29 May, composers Stevie Wishart from Brussels and Cambridge and Thierry Pécou (Ensemble Variances) from Rouen in Normandy, France will be undertaking a joint creative retreat courtesy of First Light Festival in Lowestoft Suffolk and Britten Pears Arts at the Red Studio in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

A four-day research stay by Stevie who is walking the Iken marshes around Snape and Aldeburgh, observing and recording birds, their songs and behaviours as well as other wildlife and atmospheres at different times of the day, especially rich at dawn and dusk and guided by a bird expert from Minsmere.

​Stevie and Thierry  will be staying and working at Aldeburgh, in the grounds of the Red House, formerly home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears who built spaces for their friends to stay and develop their work in the peace of the Aldeburgh surroundings.

Both composers work with birdsong and other sounds of nature, recently in a new work from Stevie premiered at Bristol New Music:  Gardez la distance -  a piece for piano, clarinet and flute plus recorded birdsong and is the result of a study into how blackbirds learn to sing.

First Light Festival is a free 24-hour multi arts festival in the beautiful coastal setting of Lowestoft -   18-19 June 2022

This retreat opportunity available for Stevie and Thierry  has been kindly made possible by  Britten Pears Arts.

​May 2022

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UK Premiere
at Bristol New Music with Ensemble Variances
Wednesday 04 May, 19.00
Victoria Rooms, Bristol

Gardez la distance - UK Premiere
for flute, clarinet, piano and pre-recorded blackbird sounds (Commissioned by Ensemble Variances)
www.steviewishart.com

DOWNLOAD : Stevie Wishart _ Gardez la Distance Programme & Performance Note​

BOOK : https://www.bristolnewmusic.org

stevie wishart · Hurdygurdy Compilation
STEVIE WISHART 

A selection of experimental and improvised music for hurdy gurdy.

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Ecotones: Soundscapes of Trees

Stevie Wishart joins the Ecotones Network


About Ecotones...

There is an increasing ecological element to Wishart’s creativity which she calls “Ecotones” and includes a special group of works inspired by the natural soundworld.

Stevie is now also part of the  international, interdisciplinary research network led by Professor Amanda Bayley (Bath Spa University) seeks new ways to communicate an awareness of environmental issues through the soundscapes of trees. It will combine insights and practices from music, ecology, conservation, social science, health and wellbeing, and education to address the global challenges of urban development and environmentally sustainable growth. 

New methods for cultural engagement interventions that focus on listening to nature in urban and rural environments, in South Korea and in the UK, will draw connections between traditional music and nature, and contribute to our understanding of the relationship between forests and human health. A soundscape mapping exercise will be developed as a tool for community participation in biodiversity monitoring. Different disciplinary perspectives will help to evaluate trees and ecosystem services, climate change, cultural values, and human health improvement as major, interconnected considerations in worldwide urban development. 

​A programme of events will run through 2022 from the UK to South Korea. 

More info here on the Ecotones website :  https://storymaps.arcgis.com


Events Highlights 


26 Jan 2023
Eurostar – a journey between cities in sound - Hermes Experiment at the Barbican

17 July 2022
​with Alice Oswald at the Oxford Botanic Garden

12 July 2022

Hildegard Portraits | Voice Cd launch at Spitalfields festival 

03 July 2022
Musicians for Ukraine at the Westacre Theatre, west Acre, Norfolk 

18 June 2022
Colourscape at Sevenoaks Festival
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24-29 May 2022
Aldeburgh residency 

4 May 2022
Gardez la distance - UK Premiere - at Bristol New Music

23 April 2022

Gold and Precious Silver - World Premiere - at Music@Malling Festival 

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Newsletter
​SPRING 2022
AUTUMN 2021
Spring 2021

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Ensemble Variances | Bristol New Music
UK PREMIERE


Wednesday 04 May, 2022, 7pm
Victoria Rooms, Bristol

Stevie Wishart
Gardez la distance - UK Premiere
for flute, clarinet, piano and pre-recorded blackbird sounds (Commissioned by Ensemble Variances)

This program explores the idea of humanity’s sharing of the planet with animals, birds, plants and the nature around us in an interspecies collaboration inspired by ancient cultures for whom the above quote was an unquestioned way of life. 
 
Music inspired by the vast expanses of nature and life that surrounds humankind on earth: this is what composer Stevie Wishart invites us to explore in the songs of the blackbird in her work Gardez la distance.

The program pairs contemporary sounds of Thierry Pécou, François-Bernard Mâche and Stevie Wishart.

www.bristolnewmusic.org
www.ensemblevariances.com

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PREMIERE - UK


Six Brandenburgs - Six Commissions

Muisic@Malling Festival 2022


Stevie Wishart is commissioned to write a new work to accompanying the Bach Brandenburg Concerti.

To be premiered at St.Mary's Abbey, West Malling in Kent, performed by Chamber Domaine under the direction of Thomas Kemp, conductor and artistic director of the Music@Malling Festival and as part of a range of new initiates by the Festival.

This follows on from a previous commission in 2019, The Last Dance? - a baroque tango, when Stevie wrote an accompanying work to Bach's Suites, commissioned by the BBC Proms and presented by the Dunedin Consort under John Butt.

Saturday 23 April 2022

https://musicatmalling.com

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PREMIERES - BELGIUM


Voicing the Dawn
premiere version/première versie 2021
Murmuration II
world premiere/wereldpremière

Garden of the Gezelle Museum, Bruges, Belgium
Tuin van het Gezellemuseum, Brugge, België

Sunday 19 September 2021
07.00, 08.45 & 10.30

Stevie Wishart: Concept & Composition/concept & compositie
Ruben Nachtergaele: Assistant Sound Artist 
Joseph Kay: computer music assistant (University of Oxford)
John Bevis: Birdsong & Birdwords consultant, Voicing the Dawn
Pluto Ensemble: vocal ensemble/vocaal ensemble
Marnix De Cat: countertenor & musical direction / altus & leiding
www.steviewishart.com

In collaboration with Musea Brugge within the framework of Mind the Artist, commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge

An enchanting walk in words and sounds
Early morning light creeps into the garden of the Gezelle House. Whispers mingle softly with the song of awakening birds. Sounds dance through the air like a cloud. In Murmurations II – named after the awe-inspiring synchronised flight of a flock of birds – Stevie Wishart integrates poet Guido Gezelle's own words. Voicing the Dawn analyses and reinterprets the birds’ dawn chorus. And Clément Janequin's evocative Chant des oiseaux offers a 16th-century vision.

Een betoverende wandeling door woorden en klanken
Het eerste morgenlicht sluipt de tuin van het Gezellehuis binnen. Voorzichtig mengt gefluister zich met de zang van ontwakende vogels. Als een wolk dansen de klanken in de lucht. Stevie Wishart integreert Gezelles eigen woorden in Murmurations II, genoemd naar de imposante zwermende beweging van een groep vogels. Voicing the Dawn analyseert en herinterpreteert het ochtendlijke vogelkoor. Clément Janequins beeldende Chant des oiseaux biedt een 16e-eeuws antwoord.

www.concertgebouw.be

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PREMIERES - FRANCE


Sunday 3rd October
Human non human

Ensemble Variances 
Le SHED, Centre d'art contemporain de Normandie, Notre-Dame de Bondeville

Stevie Wishart
Gardez la distance - World Premiere
for flute, clarinet, piano and pre-recorded blackbird sounds (Premiere, Commissioned by Ensemble Variances)

Nature has been the inspiration of composers for centuries. Now, through the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, the virtuosi musicians of Ensemble Variances continue the narrative, providing an aural and contemplative awakening to the vital environmental issues of our time.
The program pairs contemporary sounds of Thierry Pécou, François-Bernard Mâche and Stevie Wishart.
www.ensemblevariances.com

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PREMIERES - UK


Saturday October 10th @ 7.30pm 
@Soundscapes@ ~ a fusion of film and music

St Botolph Church, Culpho, Great Britain

Stevie Wishart - musician & Els van Riel - cinematographer

This is an exciting and innovative programme fusing the mesmerising sounds of the Hurdy Gurdy, played by musician and composer Stevie Wishart, and a film ‘Fugue, A Light’s Travelogue’ by Belgium Filmmaker Else van Riel.
www.culphomusic.uk

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28 May, 2021, 8 pm (CET)
SMELTING -  a meditation concert with Ruben Nachtegael sound artist, and Eva Peeters text and Stevie Wishart (violin & hurdy-gurdy)
reconnecting through sound, touch, movement and stillness
https://www.sidhe.be/work/smelting/

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21 May 2021, 8pm & 10pm (uk)
SJE Arts Oxford 
Vocal trio VOICE perform music by Hildegard of Bingen and new works by Stevie Wishart and other contemporary composers in a special on-line concert from Oxford.
Live from SJE Arts Oxford and the 10pm show will also be livestreamed here

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19 May 2021, 3.30pm (uk)
Canticles: St Pancras Canticles 
(World Premiere)
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
St Pancras Church, London 
listen 'live' or 'on demand' at BBC Radio 3
www.lfccm.com

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Black Sky Thinking : Th'infernal Drone: In Praise Of The Hurdy-Gurdy 

The Quietus, July 2020

Jennifer Lucy Allan asks what's not to like about a singular medieval instrument whose sound most closely resembles a heavy metal drone group

"The undoubted master of the hurdy-gurdy in the UK is Stevie Wishart ..."
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​The Quietus 

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Ensemble Variances

Listening then and now 

Listening then and now will now take place in 2022. Listening then and now is a project initiated by Ensemble Variances in collaboration with Caen Conservatory (France), and the Bristol New Music Festival (UK). 

​Read Stevie's thoughts about her exciting new work.
GARDEZ LA DISTANCE (WORKING TITLE) 
FOR FLUTE, CLARINET, AND PIANO

"​A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us", says Rainer Maria Rilke. Gardez la Distance is for human resonances to share the avian sound-world. Birdsong enriches human musical ideas in their use of their soundscape, and by the structure of how they sing in terms of space, content, and silence – for me, it is a unique creative resource.

Gardez la Distance draws on the process of how a bird learns to sing. The names of the movements – Subsong, Plastic Song and Song Crystallisation are names given by ornithologists to the distinct phases of the bird's learning. The piece is driven by the interaction of spontaneity, notation, and silence on the basis of avian performance.

Birdsong has given me ideas as a composer, which I find enriching, and which push me in new directions coming from nature, rather than a human source. This feels magical because my ears delve into a world of sound I cannot fathom yet is unutterably musical. Working with birdsong allows me to experience nature in a unique way and so I am overjoyed to be composing for Ensemble Variances, who share my commitment to combining new music with environmental issues.

I often get commissioned by excellent music groups who do not specialise in contemporary music. With Variances I now have the chance to work with an eminent ensemble dedicated to music of our time; and an opportunity to work with musicians with whom I have not had the chance to work with before. This promises to open up new musical horizons.

Increasingly I have felt the need to compose with more ecological relevance, and so I welcome the chance to be part of Variances’ involvement in environmental issues. Gardez la Distance will give me the chance to further explore these issues as a natural extension of my creativity. 

​(C) 2020, Stevie Wishart

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BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
"Between cities in sound (Eurostar)"
written for and performed by the Hermes Ensemble

“Stevie Wishart’s Eurostar: A journey in sound between cities (2016), the evening’s most experimental work, explored improvisation using vocalise, with whooshes, whines and a whole variety of modern loco impressions: motion in poetry.”
Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, Classical Music, London
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​23 May 2020

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Stevie Wishart commissioned by the Music@Malling Festival in Kent to write a companion piece to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto Nr.6 for Chamber Domaine under conductor and Festival Director Thomas Kemp.
2020

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Stevie Wishart commissioned by Ensemble Variances and Bristol New Music with funds from Diaphonique for Listening Then and Now to write a new piece for ensemble. 

The Ensemble Variances programme for the Conservatoire of Caen and Bristol New Music explores the idea that humanity shares the planet with animals, birds, plants and the nature that surrounds us.


Gardez la Distance
For flute, clarinet and piano.

Stevie wishart :
Gardez la Distance draws on the process of a bird's learning to sing.  I envision this as a means for the performers to learn the language of the composition which will in turn be shared with the listener.  The names of the movements (Subsong Plastic Song and Song Crystallisation are those given by ornithologists to the distinct phases of the bird's learning.  The piece is driven by the interaction of spontaneity, notation, and silence on the basis of avian performance.

​2020-2021

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A new work about 'low-tide'  in collaboration with poet Alice Oswald for London's Museum of Water.
Oct 2020

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Residency at the Caen Conservatoire with Ensemble Variances under Thierry Pecou.
Jan 2021

  

Previous News & Events


STEVIE 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


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BBC Radio 3 In Tune 
Stevie joins Sean Rafferty on In Tune ahead of her Proms Premiere with the Dunedin Consort
In Tune : 10 Sept 
Prom : 11 Sept 

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​The Last Dance?
a baroque tango


World Premiere

BBC Radio 3 & Dunedin Consort co-commission for the ​BBC Proms


Stevie has composed a baroque tango inspired by the call of the endangered Hooded Grebe to accompany the Bach Suites performed by John Butt and the Dunedin Consort in their Bach Night on 11 Sept 2019 as part of the BBC Proms celebration of the centenary of Sir Henry Wood.
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September 11th 2019

Stevie Wishart

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World Premiere - Ex Cathedra Commission 
'Voicing the Dawn', a new piece for vocal consort or chorus, will be premiered by Ex Cathedra under Jeffrey Skidmore on 6 Jun at Hereford Cathedral and through the summer as part of the choir’s  ‘Summer Music by Candlelight’.  Composed in collaboration with sound engineer Ruben Nachtegaele.
June 6th 2019 PREMIERE - Hereford Cathedral
June 14th - St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
June 18th &19th - Birmingham Cathedral
July 18th - St John's Church, Buxton Festival
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Sounding Bath ... from Farm to Forest
A series of short walks discovering the sounds and views of the South of Bath, linking up to journey all the way from the City Farm to the Forest of Imagination at the Holburne Museum. On the way take part in a series of special listening moments, making, gathering and sharing sounds, hosted by walking artist Richard White and composer Stevie Wishart.
​June 23rd 2019

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Sounds Ancient Sounds Modern
The Cantata Choir directed by Robin Walker will perform Stevie's 'O Eterne Deus' from her BBC Proms commission 'Out of this World' at St Mary's Church in Platt, as part of an evening of choral works by female composers
​June 22nd 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
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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.
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Istampite: Medieval Pieces for Fiddle and Percussion

Glossa B072N6WRRC (reissue 2017)
Sinfonye, one of the ground-breaking ensembles of Medieval music performance of the 1990 s, under the direction of Stevie Wishart, had a huge hit with this album, previously titled 'Red Iris', in 1996. This 'Istampite' recording, teams two percussionists, Jim Denley and Pedro Estevan, in support her deeply-informed fiddle and hurdy-gurdy renderings of 14th-century Florentine repertoire.


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)

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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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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
​More HERE & HERE 

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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
​More HERE

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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