Forthcoming
23 or 24 May 2025 performance with poet Harriet Tarlo “endangered plants” with a Groundwork Gallery production for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
15 March 2025 2-5pm https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/ O T T E R
1 March 2025 concert with Welsh piper Ceri Rhys Matthews, at Y Banc, Yregaron. https://ybanctregaron.co.uk/ The Square, Y Banc, Yregaron, SY25 6JL. +44 (0)7949 598129
2 February : Hurdy-Gurdy, Pipes and Bellows at Greenland Fishery, King's Lynn www.ticketsource.co.uk/greenland-fishery
Past events
10 January 2025
https://www.instagram.com/thehollowaynorwich/?hl=en
In concert with SHOLTO DOBIE. Stevie Wishart improvises on violin and hurdy-gurdy creating atmospheres with medieval roots that emerge into acoustic noise.
Sholto Dobie (Lithuania) will do a solo set. Then they will duo an improvisation - chartering unknown sounds for both of them and you. The Holloway is a micro-venue in Norwich, Norfolk
'Stevie Wishart’s hurdy-gurdy arrives at speed like a steam train, and then defies gravity by slithering upwards'. The Wire, 2024
2024
15 June Gold and Precious Silver Wigmore Hall 7.30pm
2024
20 November 2024 with Notes Inégales, Euston, London https://www.facebook.com/ClubInegales/
24 October 2024 British Library London Favus distillans + Aseruz performed by VOICE trio
'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' Exhibition Private View Opening Reception promoter 'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' Exhibition Private View Opening Reception
13 October 2024 D R I F T for the Free Range Orchestra
https://freerangecanterbury.org/ https://www.steviewishartmusic.com/dates--events.html
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=943220427845459&id=100064725307237&_rdr
17 September 2024
Voice perform Hildegard Transfigured featuring 'O Choruscans Lux Stellarum', On a cantus firmus by St Hildegard of Bingen and Azeruz and https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/hildegard-transfigured-medieval-trance-for-the-21st-century
4 August 2024
11-3pm MIDDLESBROUGH COLOURSCAPE WEEKEND
Stewart Park nr the Captain Cook Museum
Middle hurdy-gurdy in duo with Tibet https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event11.html
1 August 2024, Cugnon, Ardennes 8pm
Premiere new work for Ensemble El Laberinto (den Haag) for choir, viols, harp + curtals. L' BABILLMÎN DOU ROUCHÉ is in the Walloon patois setting a short travelogue by Vincent Houchard describing the ancient chemin du facteur between Auby and Cugnon, there is a guided walk as a prelude to the concert from 6pm (meet Stevie & Vincent at Auby church)
14 July 2024 BROADWAY COLOURSCAPE WEEKEND
'o t t e r' extraordinary duos Stevie Wishart with Maureen Wolloshin, oboes https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event9.html
13 July 2024
Deal Festival
“Gold and Precious Silver” an intermezzo for J.S.Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6 according to the respond of the Feast of St Eanswythe and 13 blackbird songs, conducted by Tom Kemp https://dealmusicandarts.com/events/brandenburg-concertos-4-5-and-6-chamber-domaine-part-2/ St.George’s Church, High Street, Deal, CT14 6ED
12 May 2024 Sensing Trees, Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn UK 3pm-6.pm https://www.groundworkgallery.com/events/sensing-trees/
16 May 2024 Cafe Oto, London, 19.30
Hurdygurdy solo in Jean-Luc Guionnet’s residency https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/jean-luc-guionnet-residency-3/
5-26 April 2024
https://musicatmalling.com/ Prelude cello solo and GAPS
June 2024 new recording: Persephone for solo voice & blackbird https://www.klarthe.com/index.php/fr/en-songe-solovoice-1-detail
March 2024 new recording: creiriau-y-delyn-rawn-relics-of-the-horsehair-harp track 6 “Rhywbeth arall” 01:49
https://rhodridavies.bandcamp.com/track/rhywbeth-arall
PERSEPHONE pour voix et chant de merles, track 13 on Anne Warthman CD En Songe https://www.klarthe.com/index.php/fr/en-songe-solovoice-1-detail
2023
LIVE:
20 August Colourscape at Watford https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event10.html
7,8,9 July 2023 TIMBER TIMBRE at the Timber Festival, Hanging Hill Farm, Rawdon Road, Moira, Swadlincote, DE12 6DH. https://timberfestival.org.uk/2023-programme/ecotones-timber-timbre/
https://collinsandgoto.com/2023/07/hakoto-collaborations/
https://www.nationalforest.org/about/grant-opportunities/arts-grants
6 June 2023 London, Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, Cultural Centre 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT 7pm TIMBER TIMBER
16 June 2023 GARDEZ LA DISTANCE - carefully using Joan Hall-Craggs’ 1950s study of a Blackbird’s learning to sing, for Ensemble Variances, dir. Thierry Pecou and selected for Diaphonique award https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/meditation-on-the-future-of-our-planet-with-ensemble-variances/#/
17 June 2023, Lowestoft First Light Festival, performed by Ensemble Variances with music composed by Thierry Pecou for voice, cello and piano, and world premiere (celebrating the birth of) PERSEPHONE for soprano Anne Warthmann & blackbirds composed by Stevie Wishart.
HURDYGURDY UNWRAPPED solo performance and informal talk about this fascinating and versatile instrument contrasting it's medieval with contemporary sounds
https://firstlightlowestoft.com/events-2023/stevie-wishart/
National Forest Arts grant towards TimberTimbre project with Hyelim Kim (for July 6-8)
produced with Leicester City in the Community for Timber Festival https://timberfestival.org.uk/2023-programme/ecotones-timber-timbre/
26 January 2023 Barbican London, Eurostar: A journey between Cities in Sound,composed for & performed by Hermes Experiment
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/the-hermes-experiment-shiva-feshareki
20 January 2023 https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/artsandculture/wintersound-2023/
2022
14 August 11.30am-3.30pm Midland Arts Centre in Cannon Hill Park, with David Stevens https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/colourscape-1 HURDY GURDY ONE GW28723290
21 August 2022 Cassiobury Park, Watford 21 with John Butcher Sax https://www.watfordbigevents.co.uk/colourscape
HURDY GURDY ONE GW28723290
17 July 2022 improvising blackbirds with poet Alice Oswald info will be announced here
https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/physic
https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/alice-oswald-same-blackbird
12 July compositions for the vocal trio VOICE album launch https://spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/events/hildegard-transfigured/
3 July HURDY GURDY ONE [GW28723290] contribution for Musicians for Ukraine
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/westacre/event/view/160264
18 June 2022 https://www.sevenoaksfestival.org.uk/event-colourscape2.html
artist residency Snape Aldeburgh with Thierry Pécou 20-30 May
4 May 2022, UK première: "Gardez la Distancce” - Blackbirds singing, Ensemble Variances, Victoria Rooms, Music Department of Bristol University in Bristol New Music festival, https://www.steviewishartmusic.com/gardez-la-distance.html
23 April 2022, Music@Malling Festival West Malling Abbey, “Gold and Precious Silver” an intermezzo for J.S.Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6 according to the respond of the Feast of St Eanswythe and 13 blackbird songs
new publications/ features:
https://thequietus.com/articles/28539-hurdy-gurdy-traditional-instrument-drone
https://fo.am/blog/2019/12/02/composing-birds/
“Songs of Place and Time Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts” 2021
“Composers of the Air: Voicing the Dawn A Memoir” (pp304-319)
https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
2021
17 November 17/11/2021 18:30 - 19:15
Evensong St John’s Cambridge. Stevie Wishart: O Choruscans lux stellarum
soundscapes for Culpho October 9 2021_Suffolk_Christine Pierce https://youtu.be/ahPc97vTI10
Sunday 3rd OctoberHuman non human Ensemble Variances GARDEZ LA DISTANCE world premiere
Le SHED, Centre d'art contemporain de Normandie, Notre-Dame de Bondevillehttp://www.ensemblevariances.com/en/programs/human-non-human
19Sept2021 07.00, 08.45 & 10.30 Voicing the Dawn premiere version/première versie &
Murmuration II world premiere/wereldpremière_Garden of the Gezelle Museum, Bruges, Belgium, Tuin van het Gezellemuseum, Brugge, België In collaboration with Musea Brugge within the framework of Mind the Artist, commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge https://www.concertgebouw.be/en/pluto-ensemble-stevie-wishart-1 & https://klara.be/marnix-de-cat-en-pluto-ensemble-brengen-wereldpremiere-van-stevie-wishart-brugge?view=app
interview radio Klara with Marnix de Cat https://klara.be/luister/select/music-matters/marnix-de-cat-en-pluto-ensemble-brengen-twee-wereldcreaties-van-stevie-wishart-naar-brugge
summer 2021 COLOURSCAPE
Music of the Spheres show, Castle Park, Colchester 24 August 2021
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event4.html
Cassiobury Park, Watford 21 August 2021
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event9.html
Colourscape Festival, Waddesdon Manor
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event2.html Waddesdon Manor, Oxen 31 July-1 August 2021
July 2021 The Same Blackbird 2021 https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/alice-oswald-same-blackbird
music for a new publication by Oxford Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald to mark the quatercentenary of the Oxford Botanic Garden,
2021 May
May28SMELTING: https://www.sidhe.be/
Publication:
Songs of Place and Time
Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts
BIRDSONG BOOK https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
St Pancras Choral Evensong in LCFCM St Pancras Canticles (premiere) 19th May, 15.30
https://www.lfccm.com/whatson/events/21020/ and live on BBC radio 3, repeated Broadcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w57b Sunday 23 May 2021
2021
“Songs of Place and Time Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts”
“Composers of the Air: Voicing the Dawn A Memoir” (pp304-319)
https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
https://thequietus.com/articles/28539-hurdy-gurdy-traditional-instrument-drone 2020
2019
Wednesday 20th November 2019 Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) performance with Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald, Garry Fabian Miller - visual artist, Stevie Wishart - composer (to include songs for 3 voices, solo violin and whispering choir)
16 September, STORIES IN TRANSIT Cambridge, http://www.storiesintransit.org/seminars/cambridgemigrantknowledge/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000892y (@32 minutes)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00087n7 (@26 minutes)
Sept. 11th 2019, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, “ Last Dance?” a Baroque Tango for the Dunedin Consort, conducted by John Butt (world premiere) https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9rn5v
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/18/crisis-crescendos-how-the-proms-is-sounding-the-alarm-for-a-planet-in-peril
July 28th, 17,15, Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School, “Out of the Mists” for Jane Chapman (harpsichord) & Joanna Macgregor (piano) https://www.dartington.org/event/jane-chapman-french-clavecinistes-and-beyond/ LINK https://www.dropbox.com/sh/91mkeafo6e60knv/
August 31st, 2019 Auby sur Semois (Belgium) “Intervention de Saint Remacle”
https://www.bertrix-tourisme.be/fr/agenda
July 30th, 2019 Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School, "Weft & Warp": new work with Tamim Al-Barghouti (poet) commissioned by the Dartington Trust for Joanna MacGregor (piano), Jon Banks (qanun, percussion) https://www.dartington.org/event/tamim-al-barghouti-stevie-wishart-the-sky-is-shared-by-everyone/
devised workshop Advanced Composition: Remembering the Future
18 Jul, 8.30pm – St John’s Church, Buxton Festival, “Voicing the Dawn” see below
6 June 2019 STORIES IN TRANSIT Palermo 6 June 2019 http://www.storiesintransit.org/workshops/storiesintransitviii/
June 22nd,2019, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Platt, Sevenoaks TN15 8NE, The Cantate Choir
“O Eterne Deus” (previous BBC Proms commission ), O Eterne Deus antiphon by Hildegard of Bingen (ed. /arranged Stevie Wishart), O Eterne Deus antiphon alio modo for solo instrument performed by the composer on hurdy-gurdy, http://www.cantate-choir.info/category/future-concerts/
June 23rd, 2019 Bath Spa (various locations) 12-5pm From farm to forst (MusicWalk) with Richard White, Senior Lecturer in Media Practice, School of Creative Industries at Bath Spa Walknow tracks for Sounding Bath https://womadfoundation.org/
22 June, 2019 http://www.cantate-choir.info/category/previous-concerts (BBC Proms commission from 2011), O Eterne Deus antiphon by Hldegard of Bingen (ed. Stevie Wishart), O Eterne Deus antiphon alio modo for solo insttument performed and composed by Stevie Wishart
June 18th & 19th, 2019, Birmingham Cathedral, 20,30, “Voicing the Dawn” a new commission for birdsong and the soloists o Ex Cathedra https://excathedra.co.uk/diary
6 th June, 2019, 8.30pm - Hereford Cathedral,
14th June, 2019, 8pm St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury
25 May 2019. “Geneeskunst”, at Monastery of Maria Aalter (domein Menas). Music interventions for De retraite Beyond Care by Barbara Raes (uitverkocht) https://www.sidhe.be/work/geneeskunst-een-inspiratiedag-rond-kunst-zorg-en-rituelen/ & https://www.vooruit.be/en/agenda/themas/12/Amen_Beyond/ 2019 & https://www.vooruit.be/en/agenda/themas/12/Amen_Beyond/ 2019
April 5th, 2019, CAPE in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, Strahlender Himmel (for soprano and piano), commissioned in honour of Helen Buchholtz by Danielle Roster & Cid Femme, Luxembourg, CD Solo Musica, Cat No: SM309, 2017with Sämann Gerlinde, soprano and Claude Weber, piano. CD launch and celebration concert. http://www.cape.lu/de/5/eid,5765/programm/kalender/UND+HAB+SO+GROSSE+S
April 25th, 2019, Kings Place, London. “Eurostar - A Journey Between Cities in Sound” Eurostar.Hermes Experiment perform Eurostar: A Journey Between Cities in Sound. & https://www.thehermesexperiment.com/evening-standard-feature/
11th January 2019, Crypt on the Green, Faringdon, London, “A Journey Between Cities in Sound “Hermes Experiment perform for their 5th Birthday Celebration Concert at . Lots of drinks and food with sets from DJ Sets from BBC Radio 3 Nick Luscombe. www.thehermesexperiment.com & https://www.wegottickets.com/event/453724
2018
November 8, 2018 at 20,00: film_concert_Els van Riel video & Stevie Wishart solo hurdy-gurdy at croxhapox, zilverhof 34, 9000 gent
an evening with readings, performance, film and music for Veva Leye’s book launch
hosted by uitgeverij het balanseer & kunstencentrum croxhapox
met dank aan Remi Verstraete in croxhapox tentoonstelt
September 9 2018, Drawn on Sound gallery music installation with graphic artist Kevin Mount. “Zie je ik hou van je” new vocal piece for the choir ‘Singhet Fro Mere’ and print exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of galerie de vos, Aalst. Musik van Stevie Wishart/ Text van Herman Gorter,with design artist Kevin Mount, http://www.cultuurinbeeld.be/index.php/reportages/1796-galerie-c-de-vos-viert-kwarteeuw.html; http://waterschoenen.blogspot.com/2018/09/25-jaar-galerie-c-de-vos-in-aalst.html
https://www.dartington.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/
Go in Peace/ Te lucis Newly commissioned Extroit to celebrate 200 years of Anglican Worship in Belgium, conducted by Piers Maxim, Musical Director at Malvern Priory, for the Archdeaconry Choral Festival at Evensong on June 9th 2018 at the Eglise Royale, (Église Protestante), Rue du Musée 2, 1000, Brussels. Koninklijke kapel – Protestantse kerk van Brussel, Museumstraat 2 in Brussel ...
March 13 premiere of new solo piano Proem, Prelude & Fugue on BBC Radio 3 Concert and composer interview as part of recital by Joanna MacGregor from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow recorded earlier this year, listen in at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v6082
Corpus Christi Chapel Choir directed by Robin Walker: 18th February at Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm followed by drinks in the Master’s Lodge, 7th March Choral Evensong 6,45pm, & 11th March end of term concert 7,30pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH, https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-corpus/chapel/chapel-services
2017
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. Premiere performance for VIPs including the King of Belgium and public entry thereafter. Acapella noisey songs, solo hurdy-gurdy improvisations and a sound-track for the gallery video based upon minimal mechanical sounds of the hurdy-gurdy, gamelan music and medieval chant. https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/23780205918/in/photostream/
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, FoAM Studio 7 February 2016
Nik Gaffney's photographic explorations of Stillness with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte.
Out of the Mists, for harpsichord and piano 3rd August 2017, Great Hall, Dartington Internaitonal Summer School, Devon, UK
A tone poem for harpsichord and piano inspired by the mists of the River Dart. Premiere performed by Joanna Macgregor - piano, Jane Chapman - harpsichord, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK. Devised workshops “Hurdy-gurdy and improvisation” (open classes any instruments) https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/premieres-august-2017/
2nd August 2017 Vespers for Hildegard, late night concert directed by Emma Kirkby and the composer, with Gavin Roberts on chamber organ, Jon Banks on harp, Stevie Wishart voice and hurdy-gurdy, with DIS master-class singers and improvisation/composition class particpants on hand-bells.archived at https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/programme/summer-school/archive/courses-3/ devised 2 workshops “Stories in Transit: Oral Poetry and Music”
with ALICE OSWALD, Jazz Improvisation and Composition Masterclass with HUW WARREN
7th November 2017, A Noisy Christmas Medley 8pm Club Inégales, Euston
Tickets from £7.00 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/club-inegales-a-noisy-christmas-medley-w-stevie-wishart-tickets-37940957425?mc_eid=29df6854ec&mc_cid=7b8c83dfec
Iste Confessor
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8312198--set-upon-the-rood
STORIES IN TRANSIT Ruskin College Oxford
2016
September 24 2016, Etale choregraphy Myriam Gourfink;
composition, tams, symphonic bass drum, octobass - Kasper T. Toeplitz
with hurdy-gurdy by Stevie Wishart at Festival Plastique Danse Flore, Le Potager du Roi, Versailles, Paris http://www.plastiquedanseflore.com
August 3 2016 Transients for Joanna Macgregor (piano), Abdul Salem Khier (oud), Eleanor Harris & Merit Ariane Stephanos. https://www.dartington.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Concerts-and-Events-Dartington-International-Summer-School-and-Festival-2016.pdf
“Out of this World”: the music of Hildegard von Bingen and choral works by Stevie Wishart, lecture recital for Temenos Academy, Lincoln Centre, Lincoln's Inn Fields , WC2A 3ED, http://www.temenosacademy.org
Concert premiere of new work “Between Cities in Sound” inspired by the sounds of the Eurostar between London & Brussels, for the Hermes Experiment, 19 April, St John's Smith square, London www.sjss.org.uk/events/brett-dean
2015
Composers' Workshop: Stevie Wishart, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, 2015
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events/composers-workshop-stevie-wishart
“Concerto à Double Entendre (The Rough with the Smooth)” : A concerto for double-bass in the form of a Concerto Grosso for double-bass, harp, theorbo, violin, harpsichord and string orchestra, commissioned fby the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 2015. https://andrewbensonwilson.org/2015/05/14/the-rough-with-the-smooth/
2012
INNER GARDEN https://fo.am/events/inner-garden/
WOMEN OF THE WORLD royal festival hall London, premiere of O choruscans for VOICE directed by Mary King with https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cvq1w Sandi Toksvigdit.
23 or 24 May 2025 performance with poet Harriet Tarlo “endangered plants” with a Groundwork Gallery production for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
15 March 2025 2-5pm https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/ O T T E R
1 March 2025 concert with Welsh piper Ceri Rhys Matthews, at Y Banc, Yregaron. https://ybanctregaron.co.uk/ The Square, Y Banc, Yregaron, SY25 6JL. +44 (0)7949 598129
2 February : Hurdy-Gurdy, Pipes and Bellows at Greenland Fishery, King's Lynn www.ticketsource.co.uk/greenland-fishery
Past events
10 January 2025
https://www.instagram.com/thehollowaynorwich/?hl=en
In concert with SHOLTO DOBIE. Stevie Wishart improvises on violin and hurdy-gurdy creating atmospheres with medieval roots that emerge into acoustic noise.
Sholto Dobie (Lithuania) will do a solo set. Then they will duo an improvisation - chartering unknown sounds for both of them and you. The Holloway is a micro-venue in Norwich, Norfolk
'Stevie Wishart’s hurdy-gurdy arrives at speed like a steam train, and then defies gravity by slithering upwards'. The Wire, 2024
2024
15 June Gold and Precious Silver Wigmore Hall 7.30pm
2024
20 November 2024 with Notes Inégales, Euston, London https://www.facebook.com/ClubInegales/
24 October 2024 British Library London Favus distillans + Aseruz performed by VOICE trio
'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' Exhibition Private View Opening Reception promoter 'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' Exhibition Private View Opening Reception
13 October 2024 D R I F T for the Free Range Orchestra
https://freerangecanterbury.org/ https://www.steviewishartmusic.com/dates--events.html
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=943220427845459&id=100064725307237&_rdr
17 September 2024
Voice perform Hildegard Transfigured featuring 'O Choruscans Lux Stellarum', On a cantus firmus by St Hildegard of Bingen and Azeruz and https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/hildegard-transfigured-medieval-trance-for-the-21st-century
4 August 2024
11-3pm MIDDLESBROUGH COLOURSCAPE WEEKEND
Stewart Park nr the Captain Cook Museum
Middle hurdy-gurdy in duo with Tibet https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event11.html
1 August 2024, Cugnon, Ardennes 8pm
Premiere new work for Ensemble El Laberinto (den Haag) for choir, viols, harp + curtals. L' BABILLMÎN DOU ROUCHÉ is in the Walloon patois setting a short travelogue by Vincent Houchard describing the ancient chemin du facteur between Auby and Cugnon, there is a guided walk as a prelude to the concert from 6pm (meet Stevie & Vincent at Auby church)
14 July 2024 BROADWAY COLOURSCAPE WEEKEND
'o t t e r' extraordinary duos Stevie Wishart with Maureen Wolloshin, oboes https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event9.html
13 July 2024
Deal Festival
“Gold and Precious Silver” an intermezzo for J.S.Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6 according to the respond of the Feast of St Eanswythe and 13 blackbird songs, conducted by Tom Kemp https://dealmusicandarts.com/events/brandenburg-concertos-4-5-and-6-chamber-domaine-part-2/ St.George’s Church, High Street, Deal, CT14 6ED
12 May 2024 Sensing Trees, Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn UK 3pm-6.pm https://www.groundworkgallery.com/events/sensing-trees/
16 May 2024 Cafe Oto, London, 19.30
Hurdygurdy solo in Jean-Luc Guionnet’s residency https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/jean-luc-guionnet-residency-3/
5-26 April 2024
https://musicatmalling.com/ Prelude cello solo and GAPS
June 2024 new recording: Persephone for solo voice & blackbird https://www.klarthe.com/index.php/fr/en-songe-solovoice-1-detail
March 2024 new recording: creiriau-y-delyn-rawn-relics-of-the-horsehair-harp track 6 “Rhywbeth arall” 01:49
https://rhodridavies.bandcamp.com/track/rhywbeth-arall
PERSEPHONE pour voix et chant de merles, track 13 on Anne Warthman CD En Songe https://www.klarthe.com/index.php/fr/en-songe-solovoice-1-detail
2023
LIVE:
20 August Colourscape at Watford https://www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event10.html
7,8,9 July 2023 TIMBER TIMBRE at the Timber Festival, Hanging Hill Farm, Rawdon Road, Moira, Swadlincote, DE12 6DH. https://timberfestival.org.uk/2023-programme/ecotones-timber-timbre/
https://collinsandgoto.com/2023/07/hakoto-collaborations/
https://www.nationalforest.org/about/grant-opportunities/arts-grants
6 June 2023 London, Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, Cultural Centre 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT 7pm TIMBER TIMBER
16 June 2023 GARDEZ LA DISTANCE - carefully using Joan Hall-Craggs’ 1950s study of a Blackbird’s learning to sing, for Ensemble Variances, dir. Thierry Pecou and selected for Diaphonique award https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/meditation-on-the-future-of-our-planet-with-ensemble-variances/#/
17 June 2023, Lowestoft First Light Festival, performed by Ensemble Variances with music composed by Thierry Pecou for voice, cello and piano, and world premiere (celebrating the birth of) PERSEPHONE for soprano Anne Warthmann & blackbirds composed by Stevie Wishart.
HURDYGURDY UNWRAPPED solo performance and informal talk about this fascinating and versatile instrument contrasting it's medieval with contemporary sounds
https://firstlightlowestoft.com/events-2023/stevie-wishart/
National Forest Arts grant towards TimberTimbre project with Hyelim Kim (for July 6-8)
produced with Leicester City in the Community for Timber Festival https://timberfestival.org.uk/2023-programme/ecotones-timber-timbre/
26 January 2023 Barbican London, Eurostar: A journey between Cities in Sound,composed for & performed by Hermes Experiment
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/the-hermes-experiment-shiva-feshareki
20 January 2023 https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/artsandculture/wintersound-2023/
2022
14 August 11.30am-3.30pm Midland Arts Centre in Cannon Hill Park, with David Stevens https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/colourscape-1 HURDY GURDY ONE GW28723290
21 August 2022 Cassiobury Park, Watford 21 with John Butcher Sax https://www.watfordbigevents.co.uk/colourscape
HURDY GURDY ONE GW28723290
17 July 2022 improvising blackbirds with poet Alice Oswald info will be announced here
https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/physic
https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/alice-oswald-same-blackbird
12 July compositions for the vocal trio VOICE album launch https://spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/events/hildegard-transfigured/
3 July HURDY GURDY ONE [GW28723290] contribution for Musicians for Ukraine
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/westacre/event/view/160264
18 June 2022 https://www.sevenoaksfestival.org.uk/event-colourscape2.html
artist residency Snape Aldeburgh with Thierry Pécou 20-30 May
4 May 2022, UK première: "Gardez la Distancce” - Blackbirds singing, Ensemble Variances, Victoria Rooms, Music Department of Bristol University in Bristol New Music festival, https://www.steviewishartmusic.com/gardez-la-distance.html
23 April 2022, Music@Malling Festival West Malling Abbey, “Gold and Precious Silver” an intermezzo for J.S.Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6 according to the respond of the Feast of St Eanswythe and 13 blackbird songs
new publications/ features:
https://thequietus.com/articles/28539-hurdy-gurdy-traditional-instrument-drone
https://fo.am/blog/2019/12/02/composing-birds/
“Songs of Place and Time Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts” 2021
“Composers of the Air: Voicing the Dawn A Memoir” (pp304-319)
https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
2021
17 November 17/11/2021 18:30 - 19:15
Evensong St John’s Cambridge. Stevie Wishart: O Choruscans lux stellarum
soundscapes for Culpho October 9 2021_Suffolk_Christine Pierce https://youtu.be/ahPc97vTI10
Sunday 3rd OctoberHuman non human Ensemble Variances GARDEZ LA DISTANCE world premiere
Le SHED, Centre d'art contemporain de Normandie, Notre-Dame de Bondevillehttp://www.ensemblevariances.com/en/programs/human-non-human
19Sept2021 07.00, 08.45 & 10.30 Voicing the Dawn premiere version/première versie &
Murmuration II world premiere/wereldpremière_Garden of the Gezelle Museum, Bruges, Belgium, Tuin van het Gezellemuseum, Brugge, België In collaboration with Musea Brugge within the framework of Mind the Artist, commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge https://www.concertgebouw.be/en/pluto-ensemble-stevie-wishart-1 & https://klara.be/marnix-de-cat-en-pluto-ensemble-brengen-wereldpremiere-van-stevie-wishart-brugge?view=app
interview radio Klara with Marnix de Cat https://klara.be/luister/select/music-matters/marnix-de-cat-en-pluto-ensemble-brengen-twee-wereldcreaties-van-stevie-wishart-naar-brugge
summer 2021 COLOURSCAPE
Music of the Spheres show, Castle Park, Colchester 24 August 2021
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event4.html
Cassiobury Park, Watford 21 August 2021
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event9.html
Colourscape Festival, Waddesdon Manor
www.eyemusic.org.uk/whatsonevents/events/event2.html Waddesdon Manor, Oxen 31 July-1 August 2021
July 2021 The Same Blackbird 2021 https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/alice-oswald-same-blackbird
music for a new publication by Oxford Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald to mark the quatercentenary of the Oxford Botanic Garden,
2021 May
May28SMELTING: https://www.sidhe.be/
Publication:
Songs of Place and Time
Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts
BIRDSONG BOOK https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
St Pancras Choral Evensong in LCFCM St Pancras Canticles (premiere) 19th May, 15.30
https://www.lfccm.com/whatson/events/21020/ and live on BBC radio 3, repeated Broadcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w57b Sunday 23 May 2021
2021
“Songs of Place and Time Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts”
“Composers of the Air: Voicing the Dawn A Memoir” (pp304-319)
https://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/songs-of-place-and-time/
https://thequietus.com/articles/28539-hurdy-gurdy-traditional-instrument-drone 2020
2019
Wednesday 20th November 2019 Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) performance with Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald, Garry Fabian Miller - visual artist, Stevie Wishart - composer (to include songs for 3 voices, solo violin and whispering choir)
16 September, STORIES IN TRANSIT Cambridge, http://www.storiesintransit.org/seminars/cambridgemigrantknowledge/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000892y (@32 minutes)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00087n7 (@26 minutes)
Sept. 11th 2019, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London, “ Last Dance?” a Baroque Tango for the Dunedin Consort, conducted by John Butt (world premiere) https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9rn5v
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/18/crisis-crescendos-how-the-proms-is-sounding-the-alarm-for-a-planet-in-peril
July 28th, 17,15, Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School, “Out of the Mists” for Jane Chapman (harpsichord) & Joanna Macgregor (piano) https://www.dartington.org/event/jane-chapman-french-clavecinistes-and-beyond/ LINK https://www.dropbox.com/sh/91mkeafo6e60knv/
August 31st, 2019 Auby sur Semois (Belgium) “Intervention de Saint Remacle”
https://www.bertrix-tourisme.be/fr/agenda
July 30th, 2019 Great Hall, Dartington International Summer School, "Weft & Warp": new work with Tamim Al-Barghouti (poet) commissioned by the Dartington Trust for Joanna MacGregor (piano), Jon Banks (qanun, percussion) https://www.dartington.org/event/tamim-al-barghouti-stevie-wishart-the-sky-is-shared-by-everyone/
devised workshop Advanced Composition: Remembering the Future
18 Jul, 8.30pm – St John’s Church, Buxton Festival, “Voicing the Dawn” see below
6 June 2019 STORIES IN TRANSIT Palermo 6 June 2019 http://www.storiesintransit.org/workshops/storiesintransitviii/
June 22nd,2019, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Platt, Sevenoaks TN15 8NE, The Cantate Choir
“O Eterne Deus” (previous BBC Proms commission ), O Eterne Deus antiphon by Hildegard of Bingen (ed. /arranged Stevie Wishart), O Eterne Deus antiphon alio modo for solo instrument performed by the composer on hurdy-gurdy, http://www.cantate-choir.info/category/future-concerts/
June 23rd, 2019 Bath Spa (various locations) 12-5pm From farm to forst (MusicWalk) with Richard White, Senior Lecturer in Media Practice, School of Creative Industries at Bath Spa Walknow tracks for Sounding Bath https://womadfoundation.org/
22 June, 2019 http://www.cantate-choir.info/category/previous-concerts (BBC Proms commission from 2011), O Eterne Deus antiphon by Hldegard of Bingen (ed. Stevie Wishart), O Eterne Deus antiphon alio modo for solo insttument performed and composed by Stevie Wishart
June 18th & 19th, 2019, Birmingham Cathedral, 20,30, “Voicing the Dawn” a new commission for birdsong and the soloists o Ex Cathedra https://excathedra.co.uk/diary
6 th June, 2019, 8.30pm - Hereford Cathedral,
14th June, 2019, 8pm St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury
25 May 2019. “Geneeskunst”, at Monastery of Maria Aalter (domein Menas). Music interventions for De retraite Beyond Care by Barbara Raes (uitverkocht) https://www.sidhe.be/work/geneeskunst-een-inspiratiedag-rond-kunst-zorg-en-rituelen/ & https://www.vooruit.be/en/agenda/themas/12/Amen_Beyond/ 2019 & https://www.vooruit.be/en/agenda/themas/12/Amen_Beyond/ 2019
April 5th, 2019, CAPE in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, Strahlender Himmel (for soprano and piano), commissioned in honour of Helen Buchholtz by Danielle Roster & Cid Femme, Luxembourg, CD Solo Musica, Cat No: SM309, 2017with Sämann Gerlinde, soprano and Claude Weber, piano. CD launch and celebration concert. http://www.cape.lu/de/5/eid,5765/programm/kalender/UND+HAB+SO+GROSSE+S
April 25th, 2019, Kings Place, London. “Eurostar - A Journey Between Cities in Sound” Eurostar.Hermes Experiment perform Eurostar: A Journey Between Cities in Sound. & https://www.thehermesexperiment.com/evening-standard-feature/
11th January 2019, Crypt on the Green, Faringdon, London, “A Journey Between Cities in Sound “Hermes Experiment perform for their 5th Birthday Celebration Concert at . Lots of drinks and food with sets from DJ Sets from BBC Radio 3 Nick Luscombe. www.thehermesexperiment.com & https://www.wegottickets.com/event/453724
2018
November 8, 2018 at 20,00: film_concert_Els van Riel video & Stevie Wishart solo hurdy-gurdy at croxhapox, zilverhof 34, 9000 gent
an evening with readings, performance, film and music for Veva Leye’s book launch
hosted by uitgeverij het balanseer & kunstencentrum croxhapox
met dank aan Remi Verstraete in croxhapox tentoonstelt
September 9 2018, Drawn on Sound gallery music installation with graphic artist Kevin Mount. “Zie je ik hou van je” new vocal piece for the choir ‘Singhet Fro Mere’ and print exhibition to mark the 25th anniversary of galerie de vos, Aalst. Musik van Stevie Wishart/ Text van Herman Gorter,with design artist Kevin Mount, http://www.cultuurinbeeld.be/index.php/reportages/1796-galerie-c-de-vos-viert-kwarteeuw.html; http://waterschoenen.blogspot.com/2018/09/25-jaar-galerie-c-de-vos-in-aalst.html
https://www.dartington.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/
Go in Peace/ Te lucis Newly commissioned Extroit to celebrate 200 years of Anglican Worship in Belgium, conducted by Piers Maxim, Musical Director at Malvern Priory, for the Archdeaconry Choral Festival at Evensong on June 9th 2018 at the Eglise Royale, (Église Protestante), Rue du Musée 2, 1000, Brussels. Koninklijke kapel – Protestantse kerk van Brussel, Museumstraat 2 in Brussel ...
March 13 premiere of new solo piano Proem, Prelude & Fugue on BBC Radio 3 Concert and composer interview as part of recital by Joanna MacGregor from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow recorded earlier this year, listen in at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v6082
Corpus Christi Chapel Choir directed by Robin Walker: 18th February at Choral Evensong, 6.00 pm followed by drinks in the Master’s Lodge, 7th March Choral Evensong 6,45pm, & 11th March end of term concert 7,30pm, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH, https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-corpus/chapel/chapel-services
2017
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. Premiere performance for VIPs including the King of Belgium and public entry thereafter. Acapella noisey songs, solo hurdy-gurdy improvisations and a sound-track for the gallery video based upon minimal mechanical sounds of the hurdy-gurdy, gamelan music and medieval chant. https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/23780205918/in/photostream/
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, FoAM Studio 7 February 2016
Nik Gaffney's photographic explorations of Stillness with atmospheric textures by Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic and Rasa Alksnyte.
Out of the Mists, for harpsichord and piano 3rd August 2017, Great Hall, Dartington Internaitonal Summer School, Devon, UK
A tone poem for harpsichord and piano inspired by the mists of the River Dart. Premiere performed by Joanna Macgregor - piano, Jane Chapman - harpsichord, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK. Devised workshops “Hurdy-gurdy and improvisation” (open classes any instruments) https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/premieres-august-2017/
2nd August 2017 Vespers for Hildegard, late night concert directed by Emma Kirkby and the composer, with Gavin Roberts on chamber organ, Jon Banks on harp, Stevie Wishart voice and hurdy-gurdy, with DIS master-class singers and improvisation/composition class particpants on hand-bells.archived at https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/programme/summer-school/archive/courses-3/ devised 2 workshops “Stories in Transit: Oral Poetry and Music”
with ALICE OSWALD, Jazz Improvisation and Composition Masterclass with HUW WARREN
7th November 2017, A Noisy Christmas Medley 8pm Club Inégales, Euston
Tickets from £7.00 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/club-inegales-a-noisy-christmas-medley-w-stevie-wishart-tickets-37940957425?mc_eid=29df6854ec&mc_cid=7b8c83dfec
Iste Confessor
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8312198--set-upon-the-rood
STORIES IN TRANSIT Ruskin College Oxford
2016
September 24 2016, Etale choregraphy Myriam Gourfink;
composition, tams, symphonic bass drum, octobass - Kasper T. Toeplitz
with hurdy-gurdy by Stevie Wishart at Festival Plastique Danse Flore, Le Potager du Roi, Versailles, Paris http://www.plastiquedanseflore.com
August 3 2016 Transients for Joanna Macgregor (piano), Abdul Salem Khier (oud), Eleanor Harris & Merit Ariane Stephanos. https://www.dartington.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Concerts-and-Events-Dartington-International-Summer-School-and-Festival-2016.pdf
“Out of this World”: the music of Hildegard von Bingen and choral works by Stevie Wishart, lecture recital for Temenos Academy, Lincoln Centre, Lincoln's Inn Fields , WC2A 3ED, http://www.temenosacademy.org
Concert premiere of new work “Between Cities in Sound” inspired by the sounds of the Eurostar between London & Brussels, for the Hermes Experiment, 19 April, St John's Smith square, London www.sjss.org.uk/events/brett-dean
2015
Composers' Workshop: Stevie Wishart, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, 2015
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events/composers-workshop-stevie-wishart
“Concerto à Double Entendre (The Rough with the Smooth)” : A concerto for double-bass in the form of a Concerto Grosso for double-bass, harp, theorbo, violin, harpsichord and string orchestra, commissioned fby the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 2015. https://andrewbensonwilson.org/2015/05/14/the-rough-with-the-smooth/
2012
INNER GARDEN https://fo.am/events/inner-garden/
WOMEN OF THE WORLD royal festival hall London, premiere of O choruscans for VOICE directed by Mary King with https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cvq1w Sandi Toksvigdit.