Still, life… World Premiere 15-30th October 2026 at Wexford Festival Opera
World Premiere with Klangforum Wien at Festwochen Wien 13 June 2026
Ní Ríain at Wiener Festwochen Academy Second Modernism 2026
Münchener Biennale for Musiktheater Premiere 15-17 May 2026
German & Polish Premieres And Still it Breathes… Musikfabrik March 2026
Earthstopper Premiere with Peter Moore Belfast 5th February 2026
BBC New Music Show BBC Philharmonic Commission
Electric Circus Driftworks Tour Ireland December 2025
Counterweight – Hard Rain in Belfast 12th December 2025
Musikfabrik Premiere in Tallinn & Riga October 2025
Premiere RSO ORF Wien Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna 2025
Shortlisted for ISCM World New Music Days 2026
Dame Evelyn Glennie & NLCE Revelling/Reckoning Canterbury Festival 2025
New Commission for Musikfabrik 2025 & 2026 European Tour
The Arts Desk Review Holocene Album “she possesses a remarkable musical imagination”
Ailís Ní Ríain Interview with CripLife July 2025
Electric Circus present Yaw Irish Tour Autumn 2025
Work featured in Enhancing Audio Description Conference
Haptic Voices at NAISA – Canada, Summer 2025
Holocene Premiere Southbank Centre London for New Music Biennial 2025
Holocene Premiere at Bradford 2025 City of Culture
Yaw – Irish Premiere – Ramp Festival – 20th July 2025
Awarded PRS Foundation Classical:NEXT Fellowship Berlin 2025
New Music Biennial 2025 Commission Bradford City of Culture & Southbank London
Yaw at Signal Flow Festival, Derry, Northern Ireland 27th April 2025
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland – Premiere – 21st Feb 2025
Dublin International Piano Competition Commission Premiere May 2025
Composer in Residence Wexford Festival Opera 2025 & 2026
Premiere at Finding a Voice Festival 8th March, Ireland, 2025
Counterweight USA Premiere Arizona 10th January 2025
Shortlisted for Unlimited Partner Award December 2024
Irish Premiere Fidelio Trio 24th November 2024
Hard Rain Ensemble UK Premiere Counterweight 27th November 2024
Commission from Evlana Ensemble Ireland 8th March 2025
Yaw Premiere at HCMF 20th November 2024
Counterweight, Sheffield University 27th November 2024
2 Steep 4 Sheep at Limerick Art Gallery 9th November
Scottish Premiere at Sound Festival NLCE & Evelyn Glennie 28th October
Refuse to be Wrecked Seminar & Performance, Maynooth, Ireland, 9-10 October 2024
Premiere of Counterweight at ClarinetFest August 2024
See/Feel/Hear Music – LAPhil Deaf Publication – Los Angeles 11th May 2024
Sequioa give Scottish Premiere at Glasgow University 30th May 2024
Haptic Voices Toronto Canada Feb-April 2024
World premiere of Oneiric in Vienna Austria 18th April 2024
Diary of an Exile Premiere Mornington Singers Dublin 23rd March 2024
Shortlisted to represent Ireland at the 2025 World New Music Days Festival
German Premiere of Consent#7 in Berlin 24th March 2024
Don’t! at ClarinetFest Dublin August 2024
Elected to the Musicians’ Union EDI Committee 2024
International Women’s Day Interview BBC Ulster March 2024
Ní Ríain Awarded the PRS Foundation Composer’s Fund Award 2024
Calling Mutely Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 New Music Show Feb 2024
Premiere Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall, Belfast 18th January 2024
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Positionen Publication [German] Feature on Deaf/Disabled Artists
Fidelio Trio premiere new work at Dark Music Days, Iceland, 27th January 2024
Nominated to represent Ireland at the ISCM World New Music Days 2024
UK Premiere of Refuse to be Wrecked at Sound Festival, Scotland 28th Oct 2023
Xenia Pestova plays Soberado in Dublin 26th Oct 2023
The Irish Times 4* Review of The Last Time I Died Album Sept 2023
Accessing the Concert Experience – CMC Sparky Conversations 6th Oct 2023
BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show Broadcasts tracks from The Last Time I Died album
The Guardian ‘Pick of the Week’ – The Last Time I Died Album
Dendrocopos for Haptic Voices Premieres in Toronto May/June 2023
Evelyn Glennie & New London Chamber Ensemble Premiere at LDSM 28 July 2023
RTÉ Culture on the Last Time I Died & Deafness
BBC Radio 4 Front Row Appearance July 2023
BBC Philharmonic Premiere at Manchester International Festival 7th July 2023
Sound New Music Listening Club: Ailís Ní Ríain 9th June 2023
The Morning Star 4* Review for The Last Time I Died
Watershed – German Premieres – June 2023
BBC Classical Music Magazine 4* Review for Debut Disc
London Sinfonietta Premiere Kings Place 24th June 2023
Debut Disc Album Released by NMC Recordings May 2023
RLPO 10:10 Ensemble Premiere, Liverpool 19th April 2023
New Music Dublin Premiere by Elizabeth Hilliard 20th April 2023
Kate Halsall performs 2 Steep 4 Sheep 28th April, Glasgow 2023
Royal National Institute of the Deaf Feature, Autumn 2023
Xenia Pestova Bennett performs toy piano works Autumn 2022 Ireland
Ulysses Journey at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival November 2022
String Quartet Premiere – Con Tempo Quartet – Galway 21st November 2022
London Sinfonietta New Commission Premiere Summer 2023
New Commission Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 10/10 Ensemble 2023
Debut Disc Release NMC Recordings 2023
Parambassis – Polish Premiere – European Clarinet Association – September 2022
Wired – New York Premiere at The Shed – August 2022
Disability Arts Online – In Conversation – Wired
Ulysses Journey – Budapest and Paris – June 2022
Royal Academy of Music Premiere July 2022
Irish Times Interview April 2022
Wired World Premiere Chicago USA 5th-8th May 2022
New Music Dublin RTÉ Concert Orchestra Premiere 1st May 2022
New Commission for Evelyn Glennie & the New London Chamber Ensemble 2022
Soundless New York Premiere by Exponential Ensemble March/April 2022
RTE Radio Culture File Interview on ‘Watershed’ March 2022
‘Watershed’ Premiere Ireland & Tour Spring 2022
Hard Rain Ensemble Irish Premiere Consent #7 – 11th February 2022 – Belfast
Ulysses Journey – Premiere – 3rd February 2022 – Dublin
RTÉ Lyric FM Radio Interview ‘How the World Begins Again’ – November 2021
Elected to the Ivors Academy Senate – November 2021
