Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart is an English composer, improviser, and performer on the hurdy-gurdy and medieval 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 the medieval group Sinfonye, which she led. Wishart was educated at Cambridge, 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. Selected recordings. Composition. 1."Of Mary, a maide/ Te Deum Laudamus" 3:17 (alt title Of Mary, a maide/ Te Deum Laudamus) 2."Lets be merry as bird on berry 5:10" 3."Lullaby for Freya (Tàladh Chrìosda) 4:21" Nova Nova Contemporary Carols from St Catharine’s. Performed by the Choirs of St Catharine’s College Cambridge dir. Edward Wickham, Resonis Classics (CDRES10159) 2015 http://www.resonusclassics.com/nova-nova-contemporary-carols-st-catharines-cambridge