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Debut Disc Album NMC Recordings May 2023

Debut Disc Album NMC Recordings May 2023

Coming 26th May 2023 Click to pre-order  The Last Time I Died is the first full-length album from the Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain. The latest in NMC's Debut Disc series features a group of musically diverse artists performing a rich selection of Ní Ríain's chamber...

Kate Halsall performs 2 Steep 4 Sheep 28th April, Glasgow 2023

Kate Halsall performs 2 Steep 4 Sheep 28th April, Glasgow 2023

Kate Halsall - adventurous piano and keyboards player gives a performance of Ní Ríain's 2 Steep 4 Sheep [some hills are] in Glasgow on 28th April 2023. New music and improv with pianist Kate Halsall, from her 2021 album release, Breathe in Me. Music for piano and...

RLPO 10:10 Ensemble Premiere, Liverpool 19th April 2023

RLPO 10:10 Ensemble Premiere, Liverpool 19th April 2023

  The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's Ensemble 10:10 will give the premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's new work for chamber orchestra 'Calling Mutely Through Lipless Mouth' [2023] on 19th April 2023 at the Tung Auditorium in Liverpool. This work is a co-commission with...

New Music Dublin Premiere by Elizabeth Hilliard 20th April 2023

New Music Dublin Premiere by Elizabeth Hilliard 20th April 2023

Irish soprano Elizabeth Hilliard will give the work premiere of Refuse to be Wrecked for voice and fixed audio media by Ailís Ní Ríain at New Music Dublin Festival 2023. Great Women at Richmond Barracks Date: Thursday 20th April Time: 4.30pm Venue: Richmond Barracks,...

London Sinfonietta – new commission – Premiere – Summer 2023

London Sinfonietta – new commission – Premiere – Summer 2023

Ailís has been commissioned by London Sinfonietta to create a new work for instrumental solo with film.  Resident at Southbank Centre, the London Sinfonietta is one of the world’s finest contemporary music ensembles with a reputation built on cutting-edge programming...

Ní Ríain Debut Disc Release NMC Recordings 2023

Ní Ríain Debut Disc Release NMC Recordings 2023

NMC Recordings will release the first portrait album by Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain in 2023. The album will comprise a rich selection of diverse works created over a period of fifteen years. "NMC Recordings is an award-winning record label with charitable status. We...

‘Wired’ – New York Premiere at The Shed – August 2022

‘Wired’ – New York Premiere at The Shed – August 2022

  Wired - a dance-theatre production by Kinetic Light [New York] with music by Ailís Ní Ríain opens at The Shed in New York 25-27 August 2022. Immense and intimate, Wired meditates in sound, light, and movement as it questions and ruminates on power, belonging,...

Disability Arts Online – In Conversation – ‘Wired’

Disability Arts Online – In Conversation – ‘Wired’

  An interview published by Disability Arts Online September 2022 between Alice Sheppard of Kinetic Light and composer Ailís Ní Ríain. Kinetic Light Dance Company is an internationally-recognized disability arts ensemble whose production Wired played in New York...

Ulysses Journey – Budapest and Paris – June 2022

Ulysses Journey – Budapest and Paris – June 2022

Ulysses Journey 2022 Film Screening and Discussion on Joyce and Music at FUGA :: Budapest Center of Architecture 17 June 2022 19:00   The following events include Ailís Ní Ríain's 'I will see if I can see'  for accordion & prepared piano with film and archival...

Royal Academy of Music Premiere July 2022

Royal Academy of Music Premiere July 2022

Double-bass player and singer Eleanor Grant will give the world premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's Mascaron for double-bass and recorded prepared piano on 1st July 2022 at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Mascaron has been commissioned by the Royal Academy as part of...

Irish Times Feature April 2022

Irish Times Feature April 2022

A feature about Ailís was published in The Irish Times in April 2022 in advance of the premiere of her orchestral work Flower Scar Road for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as part of New Music Dublin Festival in the National Concert Hall, Ireland. The piece is written by...

‘Wired’ World Premiere Chicago USA 5th-8th May 2022

‘Wired’ World Premiere Chicago USA 5th-8th May 2022

World Premiere May 5-8 2022 Chicago, USA Wired is a passionate and potent aerial and contemporary dance experience that tells race, gender, and disability stories of barbed wire in the United States. In this world premiere, the dancers of Kinetic Light partner, spin,...

New Music Dublin RTÉ Concert Orchestra Premiere 1st May 2022

New Music Dublin RTÉ Concert Orchestra Premiere 1st May 2022

Ailis has been commissioned by the Ireland's leading contemporary music festival New Music Dublin to compose a new orchestral work for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.  Flower Scar Road which will be premiered at The National Concert Hall of Ireland 1st May 2022....

RTE Radio Culture File Interview on ‘Watershed’ March 2022

RTE Radio Culture File Interview on ‘Watershed’ March 2022

An interview for RTE Culture File in March 2022 with composer Ailís Ní Ríain & poet Jessica Brown where they discuss their 2020/2021 collaboration on 'Watershed' - a song-cycle for vocalist Julie Comparini and pianist Yonit Kosovske. Funded by the Arts Council of...

‘Watershed’ Premiere Ireland & Tour Spring 2022

‘Watershed’ Premiere Ireland & Tour Spring 2022

"Watershed is a new song cycle for voice and piano inspired by the natural bodies of water and land in Ireland’s mid-west region and along the Atlantic coast. With music by renowned Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and text by Killaloe resident and poet Jessica Brown, it...

Ulysses Journey – Premiere – 3rd February 2022 – Dublin

Ulysses Journey – Premiere – 3rd February 2022 – Dublin

The Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland and the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris present Ulysses Journey 2022: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce - in Dublin, Belfast, Paris & Budapest   2 February 2022 17:30 - 18 June 2022...