Pete Wishart
Peter Wishart (born 9 March 1962) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and musician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth and North Perthshire since 2005. He was previously the MP for North Tayside from 2001.
He is currently the SNP Shadow Leader of the House in the House of Commons and the chair of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee. He has previously served as the SNP's Westminster Spokesperson for the Constitution and for Culture and Sport and Chief Whip.
Wishart is the former keyboard player of the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig.
Background
Born in Dunfermline in 1962, Wishart was educated at Queen Anne High School Dunfermline and Moray House College, Edinburgh. Wishart lives in Perth and has one son and enjoys walking in the Perthshire hills. Wishart is a trained Community Worker and has been a Director of the Fast Forward charity that promotes healthy lifestyles for young people. He was a member of the Scotland Against Drugs Campaign Committee and has contributed to many national forums looking at the problem of drugs within Scottish society.
Peter Wishart (composer)
Peter Charles Arthur Wishart (25 June 1921 – 14 August 1984) was an English composer. Wishart was born in Crowborough. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1947-1948 and taught at the Guildhall School of Music, Birmingham University, King's College London and Reading University where he was Professor of Music from 1977. His compositions include several neo-classical operas, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a large amount of church music. Critics have commented on Wishart's strong and individual lyricism, and his admiration for the music of Igor Stravinsky.
He was married to the mezzo-soprano singer Maureen Lehane, with whom he worked with at Reading University and lived with in Bridge House, near Frome, Somerset. His son by a previous marriage James Wishart is also a composer. After his death, Maureen began a music festival in his memory, the Great Elm Music Festival, and later the Jackdaws Music Education Trust. She died on December 27, 2010.
The family is unrelated to that of the composer Trevor Wishart.
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Peter Wishart
ALBUMS
- O magnum misterium released: 1996
O magnum misterium
Released 1996- O Radix Jesse
- Three Carols, Op. 17: III. Alleluya, a new Work is come on Hand
- Three Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose
- Five Carols: II. Out of your sleep
- Of a rose is all my song
- Five Carols: I. There is no rose
- As dew in Aprylle
- O magnum misterium
- Bethlehem Down
- Five Carols: III. That younge child
- I saw a fair maiden
- Three Carol-Anthems: III. Sing lullaby
- Ave Maria
- Five Carols: IV. Sweet was the song
- A Hymn of the Nativity
- Lullaby my Jesus
- Hodie Christus natus est
- All and some
- Three Carols, Op. 25: III. An ode of the birth of our Saviour
- Five Carols: V. Susanni
- Puer natus est nobis
- Benedicamus Domino
- A Cornish Christmas Carol
- Reges Tharsis
- Three Carol-Anthems: I. Here is the little door
- Three Carols, Op. 25: I. The Star-song
- What cheer?
- Three Carols, Op. 25: II. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
- Verbum caro factum est
