Stevie Wishart

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Stevie Wishart (born April 1959 ) is a British composer , rebel and hurdy-gurdy player and singer of early music and new improvisation music .

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Wishart received her academic training from the University of York . There she not only studied music of the Middle Ages and ethnomusicology , but also composition and electronic music with Trevor Wishart and Richard Orten; she also came into contact with the views of John Cage , Merce Cunningham and David Tudor on aleatoric music . Postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music (Diploma in Advanced Performance ) and at the New College of the University of Oxford followed.

Wishart, who first appeared in the Welsh trio Aberjaber and was part of Chris Burn's improvisation ensemble with John Butcher and Jim Denley , founded the group Sinfonye in 1986 , with which she examined the performance practices of traditional music in order to adapt it to her own combination of medieval and contemporary improvisational music to make your own. With Sinfonye she gave numerous concerts and released several albums on the labels Hyperion Records, Celestial Harmonies and Glossa Music. In addition, she began to realize her own projects in the 1990s. In 1992 she performed the Cantigas de Amor by Dom Dinis ; She presented a multi-media performance of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum by Hildegard von Bingen at several festivals and in a radio production by the BBC .

From the mid-1990s, Wishart belonged to Machine for Making Sense (together with Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart , Jim Denley, Chris Mann), with whom she performed at the Moers Festival in 1997 , but also to the group Kwatz with John Butcher, Claudia Ulla Binder , Roger Turner and Alfred Zimmerlin . She improvised in Zurich with Binder, Dorothea Schürch , Marianne Schuppe, Hannah E. Hänni, Co Streiff , Birgit Ulher , and Robyn Schulkowsky (DRS recording).

Wishart performed the premiere of her composition The Square of Infinity with dancers in the dry bed of Lake Mungo, Australia . Her piece Lacunae combines medieval, free-improvised and techno approaches. For the compilation Haikus Urbains she worked with Otomo Yoshihide , Fred Frith , Andy and Luc Ex . She has also composed for theater productions by Michèle Noiret (Théâtre National de Bruxelles) and Wayne McGregor or for the designer Philippe Starck . Art Zoyd commissioned a composition from her for the band and the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles .

She was involved with one movement ( Arrow for countertenor, strings and organ) in the Oratorio for Peace , a joint work by eight composers, which premiered in 2005 for the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg religious peace . In 2010, at the Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), she created her sound installation The Sound of Gesture , which took special features of hearing physiology into account. In 2015 her double bass concert was premiered by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London.

Discographic notes

  • Wish (1993)
  • The Sound of Gesture (2010)
  • Vespers for St Hildegard (Decca 2012)
Collaborations
  • Sinfonye Bella Domna: The Medieval Woman: Lover, Poet, Patroness and Saint (Hyperion 1988)
  • Sinfonye / Stevie Wishart Trois Sœurs | Three Sisters (Glossa 2001)
  • Azeruz (2000, with Chris Abrahams , Shane Fahey, Mina Kanaridis, Amanda Stewart)
  • Machine for Making Sense The Act of Observation Becomes the Object Itself (2001)
  • Paul Dunmall with Paul Lytton & Stevie Wishart In Your Shell Like (Emanem 2005)
  • Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt , Stevie Wishart Compass, Log and Lead ( Intakt Records 2006)
  • Werner Dafeldecker / Christof Kurzmann / John Tilbury / Stevie Wishart Violet (mikroton 2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sinfonye Ltd. ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Chris Burn & John Butcher
  3. ↑ biography (microton). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on December 25, 2018 .
  4. ^ Stevie Wishart's New Double Bass Concerto Fails to Deliver
personal data
SURNAME Wishart, Stevie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician (Rebec, hurdy-gurdy, vocals) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1959