Exploring music’s unique ability to express ideas on a level that transcends other routes of communication is the principal motivation of Stevie's work as a music composer and improviser. She has performed and had her compositions played at major venues including London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall & Festival Hall, the Sydney Opera House and St Peter’s Basilica Rome. She has recorded for Decca, Glossa and Splitrec as well as for her own and other labels. She works with the renowned contemporary music Ensemble Variances, directed by Thierry Pecou, and with Alice Oswald (Oxford Professor of Poetry). Concern for the environment is a natural extension of Stevie's creativity: she is a member of Fo.am and a founder member of the Ecotones Network. Endangered birdsong can be heard as themes in many of her recent orchestral, chamber and vocal works. Stevie is a violinist who also performs on the hurdy-gurdy, a stringed keyboard instrument going back to medieval times. This instrument gives a unique "old-and-new" sound that resonates in Stevie’s music, cutting a sonic groove between spontaneous improvisation and carefully crafted composition. 'The most flamboyant and mood-breaking of the pieces was Stevie Wishart’s ‘The Last Dance?’ She juxtaposed string writing with the punch and heft of the "Glorification" scene from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with field recordings of the song of the endangered hooded grebe.' [ArtsDesk, Sebastian Scotnet, BBC Proms concert, Royal Albert Hall, Sept 2019]