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STEVIE WISHART
MUSICAL CONCEPTS AND DIRECTION / LIVE COMPOSER- MUSICIAN.

Commenced formal training in the with a Local Education Authority scholarship at the Arts Education Trust School in the UK (dance, art, music) and subsequently at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. At the University of York Wishart specialized in composition, electronic music, and ethnomusicology.

Performance studies on violin and voice continued at postgraduate level at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Diploma in Advanced Performance). With a Nuffield Foundation award and a Vicente Cañada Blanch Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, research began for a Ph.D. in musical iconography in medieval art, with reference to the invention of bowed instruments (early violins and the hurdy-gurdy) under the direction of Christopher Page. The combined contact with contemporary and medieval musics led to creating sound with various forms of notation, compositional systems with both acoustic and electronic media.

Professional career As a composer and performer Wishart explores contemporary and medieval extremes. Moving between Australia and Europe, her work draws on these contrasting landscapes and histories (bush/ urban), and also between arcane technologies such as the hurdy-gurdy, and present-day electronic music, such as digital, analogue and interactive sound generation and processing. Improvised and multimedia processes are used in many of her projects and are seen as a link between medieval and present-day art forms.