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Trevor Wishart Trevor Wishart's work spans a number of genres, from music theatre and site-specific events to extended pieces for tape. His most well-known works include 'Red Bird' (1977), awarded a Euphonie d'Or at the 1992 Bourges Festival, the 'Vox cycle' (1980-88) first heard in full at the 1989 Proms, and 'Tongues Of Fire', winner of the Golden Nica for computer music at the Linz Ars Electronica Festival, 1995. His work has been commissioned by IRCAM, the Paris Biennale, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the DAAD in Berlin, the French Ministry of Culture and the BBC Proms. In the year 2000, 'Birthrite, a Fleeting Opera' was presented on moving barges on the Thames with performers from the Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet. He is particularly concerned with the significance of imagination and personal creativity in the modern world and his work often deals with these issues. He has developed many new instruments (as signal processing software) for musical composition, and he is a founder member of the Composer's Desktop Project, a composers' cooperative. His book Audible Design is a practical musical guide to sound transformation techniques using the computer. Wishart is an independent composer living and working in the North of England. He has held residencies, visiting professorships, or research fellowships in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and the USA and at several Universities in the UK. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of York.

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