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Aerial/Sparks Galway Capital of Culture 2020
East: West - Where Morning is the Sea Ailís' commission for the Aerial/Sparks programme curated by Louise Manifold for Galway European Capital of...
French Publishers L’Arche acquire The Tallest Man in the World
The French publisher L'Arche has acquired the rights to the French translation by Annie Peters of Ailís Ní Ríain's play The Tallest Man in the World...
The Royal Opera House: Engender 2020/21
Ailís is working with the Northern Irish writer Maria Fusco and the Royal Opera House Engender Programme to develop a new opera. The duo have been...
2020 Galway European Capital of Culture
The largest city in Ireland’s western province of Connacht, Galway is the third Irish holder of the European Capital of Culture title. Beginning in...
Kinetic Light Dance Collaboration New York 2019-2021
Ailís has been working as a composer with the New York based dance company Kinetic Light on a new dance-theatre work to be premiered at The Shed in...
Under the Rose at New Music Dublin 2020 – 28th February
The Royal Irish Academy of Music presents a concert as part of New Music Dublin 2020 Festival at the National Gallery of Ireland on Friday 28th...
Sour Morning Crimson at Electric Spring Festival 2020
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua have worked together as a duo since 2012, performing music for organ and electronics, with a further focus on...
Unlimited ‘Pencil Piano’ – Leeds College of Music 12th February 2020
Ailis will present a talk & performance about the pencil piano; an Unlimited supported research & development project she has worked on...
No Other Word For It, IMBOLC Festival, Jan – Feb 2020
IMBOLC Festival in Derry, Northern Ireland presents an immersive installation combining music, sculpture, light, text and video mapping by Ailís Ní...
Premiere: Sour Morning Crimson Birmingham, UK 8th February
Their performances span the possibilities of the combination from organ with stereo fixed media sound, to organ with live diffusion, organ with live...
Seminar at Columbia University, New York, 30th Oct 2019
Ailís has been invited to give a presentation about her work to the graduate students of composition at the music department of Columbia University...
Awarded PRS for Music Foundation Funding for New Commission
A new 15 minute work for wind-quintet in recognition of the New London Chamber Ensemble's 20th anniversary and the Beethoven centenary, both in...
Irish Art Song Project 2020, National Concert Hall, Ireland
Irish is the oldest vernacular written language (i.e. non-Greek) in western Europe, and this longevity of tradition has created one of the great...
Xelmya perform Soundless at St Thomas’, Berlin 27th Oct 2019
XelmYa+ at Klangräume - the Berlin based trio XelmYa will give a performance of Ailís Ní Ríain's Soundless at St Thomas Evangelical Church in Berlin...
Our First Lesson in Forgetting, Copenhagen, 27th September 2019
The Danish classical guitarist Frederik Munk Larsen will give another performance of Our First Lesson in Forgetting for solo guitar as part of Grand...
New Commission for IMBOLC Festival, Derry 2020
In the few short years of its existence IMBOLC International Music Festival has grown to become one of Ireland’s leading folk and world music...
2 Steep 4 Sheep – Eindhoven, Holland 14th Sept 2019
The harpsichordist Goska Ispording gave a performance of Ailís Ní Ríain's 2 Steep 4 Sheep [some hills are] on 14th September 2019 at Paviljoen...
Residency – RV Celtic Explorer Aug ’19 Galway Capital of Culture 2020
Ailís spent August 2019 on board the RV Celtic Explorer as part of a unique research residency for a new project with Aerial Sparks which will form...