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An interview in Totally Dublin about I Used to Feel Ailís was pleased to write The Time of My Life for The Irish Times about the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly. An interview on Artbeat on Dublin City FM on 12th September 2018 in advance of I Used to Feel in...

The British pianist James Willshire will give the premiere of a new piece The Height of Me by Ailís Ní Ríain commissioned by the Late Music Series in York on 1st September 2018. The evening will be a commemoration of the centenary of Debussy’s death with...

Carla Rees (bass-flute) and Sarah Watts (bass-clarinet) give the UK premiere of Consent #7 on Wednesday 1st August at the Rarescale Summer School in Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire in England. Carla Rees is a UK-based low flutes specialist who has developed...

The Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland approached Ailis to write an article about her recent residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the United States. "...this is one of the few places where a composer/musician can avail of an...

Following on from performances in Paris, Manchester, Dublin, Derry, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Sarajevo, we present two performances of Sklonište at Cork Midsummer Festival on Sunday 24th June at the Crypt at St Lukes Church. Click here for further...

Trio XelmYa - Alexa Renger, Freddi Börnchen, Sylvia Hinz - perform Ailís Ní Ríain's Soundless [oboe, violin and recorder] as part of Enact/direct/Escape at Berlin's Unerhoerte Musik on Tuesday 5th June 2018 at 1945. Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading...

The Spanish harpsichordist Silvia Martinez gave the Dutch premiere of 2 Steep 4 Sheep (some hills are) on 24th May at Orgelpark, Amsterdam as part of the finalists recital in the Annelie de Man Composition Competition.

Ailís spent the month of April at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the United States, where she primarily focused on developing new material for altered piano. Here is a short video extract of Ailís playing the altered...

There will be two performances of Ailís Ní Ríain's DON'T! for bass-clarinet and cello at on Monday 23rd April 2018 in Dublin at both Rathmines Public Library and the Ilac Centre in Dublin City as part of the Contemporary Music Centre’s Musical Tales...

The Irish harpist Anne-Marie O' Farrell will give the Irish premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's of Fear Is from The Falling for harp solo at Riverstown Hall, Maynooth University, Co. Dublin on Friday 21st April 2018. This is the concert version of Fear Is with...

  Ailís' piece for solo harpsichord and fixed audio media 2 Steep 4 Sheep (some hills are) has been shortlisted for the 2018 Prix Annelie de Man in the Netherlands. A competition for composers and harpsichordists to promote and support contemporary...

Serving more than 350 artists a year, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is one of America's largest year-round artists' communities. VCCA Fellows have received worldwide attention through publications, exhibitions, compositions, performances, and...

'No-strings-attached' awards designed to give artists the time and freedom to develop their creative ideas. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation in London has announced that Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain is one of the recipients of the Awards for Artists 2016, with...

In 2017 COMA commissioned Ailís to compose a new work for their Open Score programme. The result is Sealán which will be premiered at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham by members of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and COMA members on 4th March 2018....

SHOWCASE NEW MUSIC::NEW IRELAND This showcase performance, presented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland will feature the works of, and short interviews with, composers featured on CMC’s new promotional double CD new music::new Ireland three. Xenia...

Ailís' music-theatre work for voice and small ensemble Break Down De Doom has been shortlisted by the Irish Association of Composers to represent Ireland at the International Society of Contemporary Music in Beijing in May 2018. The piece is a setting of...

Ailís was selected to participate in MAKE 2018 as a writer. It took place from 23rd Feb- 4th March 2018 at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a centre for creative artists at Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan. Ailís focused on the writing of a new work for theatre in...

Dermot Dunne will perform Sklonište - Ailís' 60 minute work for live classical accordion and video combining the experiences and motivations of international aid-workers and the surrealism of war. Sklonište is alternative reflection on the longest siege in...