Ailis Ni Riain, composer and writer

"Listening to it stops me in my tracks.
This is a composer who can get right under the skin."
Bob Gilmore, The Journal of Music in Ireland

ailís ní ríain
Composer and Writer

About Ailis Ni Riain

The Irish composer and writer Ailis Ni Riain combines her interests in composing and writing to produce works which explore her myriad artistic interests. She is particularly interested in sound installation, voice theatre, public art, music-theatre & presenting contemporary music in diverse spaces. She has been represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland since 1999 and lives in the North of England.

Recent Highlights

EXIT awarded 2nd Prize in the Vienna Masterworks Nancy Van De Vate Competition for New Opera in December 2006 (see here).

StreetSong awarded joint 1st Prize at the ICSM World Music Days July 2006.  Read the press release.

StreetSong commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Diversions Festival is an outdoor sound installation to celebrate the 20th anniversary of CMC.

Two new commissions for Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

A new commission from SPNM /Serious for the London Jazz Festival UPTHEWALLS was premiered on 25th November to a packed Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London by the arthurs.høiby.ritchie trio and was recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.  A recording will appear on the audio samples shortly. 

 

Another new work, Beautiful Cracked Eyes has been commissioned by Adam Swayne with funds from Arts Council England for piano solo will be performed by Adam Swayne as part of the Park Lane Group concert series on 8th January 2008 at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London. Tickets available from The Southbank Centre. 

 
Wounds, Scars, Screams released on CD

Wounds, Scars, ScreamsWounds, Scars, Screams from The Falling has been released by CD-R, a label for sonic art showcasing 'Unsafe' new electroacoustic and experimental music. UNSAFE: sound works that take risks - artistically, aesthetically, philosophically, sonically, even physically. Works that should carry a health warning, that ignore safety margins, that lie outside the comfort zone.

 
TranSextreme released on CD

Active ImageTransSextreme (2005), a tape piece comprising texts written and performed by Ailis Ni Riain alongside acoustic and electracoustic harp has been included in Deep Wireless 4 CD - a Canadian Radio Art Compilation. This is a commerical release available directly from Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art

TranSextreme has played through May in Process Gallery, Toronto, Canada as part of the Radio Salon Installation.

 
TILT

Tilt, by Ailis Ni Riain

The New Works theatre company toured TILT, the debut play by Ailis Ni Riain to Liverpool, The Granary Theatre, Cork and Glasgow's Citizen Theatre in April and May 2007.

TILT has been published by Nick Hern Books, the UK's leading specialist publisher of plays and theatre books. 

Click here to purchase TILT.

CMC TILT Press Release click here. 

"A compelling ensemble... Created with such delicate intensity that it feels as if the audience itself is holding its breath" - The Irish Times

"A startlingly confident new Irish play... Ni Riain has hit the ground running... " Evening Echo, Cork

"Anyone interested in serious theatre writing should flock to this perfectly formed miniature." - The Herald

"A perfectly-pitched 45 minutes of theatre that features heart-stopping performances...it promises a fine future for a writer who has only recently turned to theatre, after an early career as a composer that has clearly influenced every breath and intonation of this intense and musical piece of drama." - The Scotsman.

Some rehearsal photos...

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