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 February 2020 at 1pm. They will perform Under the Rose [2000] for violin, piano, flute and spoons. The piece was originally...
Irish Arts Council Commissions Award 2020: Watershed
Ailís has recently been working on a new commission funded by the Irish Arts Council Commissions Award. Watershed - a song-cycle for pianist Yonit Kosovske, contralto Julie Comparini with text by the Irish based American poet Jessica Brown will be premiered in...
The Abbey Theatre: Engine Room
Ailís is working with Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco on a new music-theatre/opera work Etna Drive which has been selected by The Abbey Theatre in Ireland for research & development funding through its Engine Room scheme. Peacelines first appeared in Belfast in...
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 most recently produced at The Tank Theater, in New York City 2019. Details may be found here. "Founded in 1949,...
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 contemporary experimental music, graphic and extended notation for the organ, and live and interactive electronic...
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 since Spring 2019. Leeds College of Music3 Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7PD Wednesday 12th February 2020 at 2pm [c. 45 mins] Her...
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 Ríain. From Sunday 26 January to Sunday 9 February 2020 [Official opening with reception - Sunday 26 January at 15:00]...
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 electronics and performances incorporating live notation and improvisation. This has included collaborations with many...
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 February to tie in with the ancient Celtic calendar, the Galway 2020 programme is built around the four Celtic festivals...
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 in New York City on Wednesday 30th October 2019. Ailís will focus on her 'altered piano' research, Sklonište - her...
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 European literatures. Despite Irish language obliteration during colonisation, the language has somehow, miraculously,...
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 on Sunday 27th October at 1600. XelmYa+ (Freddi Börnchen - oboe, Alexa Renger - violin, Sylvia Hinz / Sylvia Hinz -...
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 Nordic Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27th September 2019. Munk Larsen commissioned the piece from Ailís in 2018...
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 festivals. Whilst still firmly rooted in the musical cultures of this island, the festival has grown in depth and breadth and...
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 Ongehoorde Muziek, Eindhoven, Holland. Harpsichordist Goska Isphording is one of the most exciting performers in her field....
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 part of 2020 Galway European Capital of Culture. The ship is a multi-purpose research vessel operated by the Marine...
The Manchester Peace Song-Cycle, 10th Nov ’19
On Remembrance Sunday 10th November 2019, Feelgood are proud to bring 'These Days - The Manchester Peace Song Cycle' back to the city for a single performance within its historic Cathedral. Since its remarkable collaborative creation in 2018, featuring original work...
Soundless performed by Xelmya 1st Sept, Berlin
The German trio XelmYa will give a performance of Soundless for recorder, viola and oboe on Sunday 1st September 2019 at Schwartzsche Villa in Berlin. Soundless is based on a work by Andrew Topel - a visual poet from the USA. The promotion of contemporary music and...
‘Our First Lesson in Forgetting’ Denmark, on Tour Summer 2019
Klangveje #2 Tour by Danish guitarist Frederik Munk Larsen takes place in Summer 2019 lasting on month. The tour includes performances of a newly commissioned guitar piece by Ailís Ní Ríain Our First Lesson in Forgetting. The route goes from Copenhagen, to the south...
2 Steep 4 Sheep – Warsaw, Poland 14th June 2019
The harpsichordist Goska Ispording gave a performance of Ailís Ní Ríain's 2 Steep 4 Sheep [some hills are] on 11th June 2019 as part of the Warsaw Biennale. Harpsichordist Goska Isphording is one of the most exciting performers in her field. Specializing in...
Residency at Yaddo, USA May-June 2019
Ailís is very grateful to Yaddo Artist Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA for inviting her to spend a month to focus on her work and to ArtsAdmin Unlimited UK for supporting her travel to the USA to enable her to take up this residency. "Yaddo holds the...
Unlimited Commission 2019/2020
In May 2019 Ailís embarks on on a new research & development commission with Unlimited which will be a musical response for altered piano/pencil based to the work by the Japanese Outsider Artist Koji Nishioka. Unlimited is an arts commissioning programme...
‘Soundless’ Columbian Premiere, 12th June 2019
The acclaimed German recorder player and champion of new music, Sylvia Hinz and her trio XelmYa will give the Columbian premiere of Ní Ríain's 'Soundless' [viola, oboe, recorder] on 13th June 2019 as part of the Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva FMMN. Wednesday,...
‘Loophole’ Premiere 2nd April, University of Wisconsin, USA
A Very Small Consortium's Sam Stranz gave the premiere of 'Loophole' for solo alto saxophone on 5th April as part of the 6:30 Concert Series at the University of Wisconsin, USA. The concert series is designed to connect the campus with the community through the...
Skloniste premiere Hong Kong 5th April 2019
SKLONIŠTE (SHELTER; BOSNIAN) The Irish accordionist Dermot Dunne will perform a programme of contemporary works for solo accordion including Ailís Ní Ríain's Skloniste presented by Hong Kong's Avant Music Association in the Sha Tin Cultural Activities Hall, Hong...
New York Premiere ‘The Tallest Man in the World’ at The Tank Theater 6-17th March 2019
The New York premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's play The Tallest Man in the World opens at The Tank Theater in New York on 6th March and runs until 17th March. Supported by Culture Ireland and presented by The Tank, New York. Directed by Ran Xia and produced by The Tank,...