Stevie Wishart

Stevie Wishart
Background information
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)hurdy-gurdy, violin
LabelsDecca

Stevie Wishart is a composer, improviser, and performer on the hurdy-gurdy and violin. Mainly involved in contemporary music, she has also had a career in early music and has edited and recorded the complete works of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, as well as performing music from the repertoire of the medieval troubadours, trouvères and the Cantigas de Santa Maria, with her ensemble Sinfonye.

Wishart was educated at Cambridge,[1] Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, studying composition and electronic music at the University of York with Trevor Wishart and Richard Orten. She then studied improvised and aleatoric music with John Cage and David Tudor. Later she was a member of performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Amanda Stewart and Jim Denley.[2]

  1. ^ From the CRASSH event at the Cambridge University Music Faculty, 22 September 2011.
  2. ^ John Jenkins, 22 Contemporary Australian Composers, NMA Publications, Brunswick, Australia, 1988