Xenia Pestova Bennett will perform a selection of Ailís Ní Ríain's works for toy piano in Autumn 2022 including Soberado and Anomaly.  Soberado will also feature on Ailís NMC Recordings Debut Disc Series due for release in Spring 2023.    

Saturday 19 November – Sunday 27 November: 11am – 4pm Information Produced and presented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland and Centre Culturel Irlandais Six newly-commissioned music and film works, screening throughout hcmf// 2022 As part of Ulysses Journey...

Reflections on Loss: Poetry, Music and Performance Monday, 21 November 2022, 1.00pm O'DONOGHUE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY Sometimes art can express things in ways we as individuals cannot. Join us for a unique combination of poetry, music and devised performance...

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...

A new commission for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's Ensemble 10/10 by Ailís Ní Ríain will be premiered on 19th April 2023 at the Tung Auditorium, Liverpool conducted by Catherine Larsen-Maguire. More details/tickets.

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...

  Paul Roe and Laoise O' Brien as Temenos gave the Polish premiere of Parambassis, a duo for bass-clarinet and recorders on 8th September 2022 at Concert Hall, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Kraków, Poland as part of the 11th Annual European Clarinet...

  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,...

  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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

Ailís has been commissioned to compose a new work for British percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and the New London Chamber Ensemble wind quintet.  Gratefully supported by the PRS Foundation for Music. The work is due to be premiered in 2022.

New York based Exponential Ensemble give the New York premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's trio Soundless inspired by the vispo art of the same title by Andrew Topel [USA] at Marc A. Scorca Hall, National Opera Center, New York on 18th March followed by a repeat of the...

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 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...

The Belfast based Hard Rain Ensemble will give the Irish Premiere of Ailís Ní Ríain's duo for bass flute and bass clarinet Consent #7 - on 11th February in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as part of a Xenakis at 100 concert.   Fri 11th February 2022 @ 7.30pm Harty...

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...

In the new RTÉ lyric fm radio and podcast series How the World Begins Again, Elizabeth Hilliard meets twenty women: composers and sound artists connected to the island of Ireland. They share their stories, their inspirations, creativity and challenges as they connect...

Ailís has recently been elected to the Ivors Academy Senate The Ivors Academy is one of the largest professional associations for music writers in Europe and exists to support, protect and campaign for the interests of songwriters, lyricists and composers. It...

Ailís' work for 'pencil' piano Hex is currently part of an exhibition at The Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire. The show, entitled, Kindred Spirits pairs work from the Jerwood Collection with Outsider Art made by UK artists, offering a fascinating insight into the...

Soundless - New York Premiere - 21st October, 2021 New York's Exponential Ensemble  Thursday, October 21 - 7pmNational Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue (7th floor), New York City This concert explores a variety of emotions experienced when people come together, either in...

The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland and Centre Culturel Irlandais announce Ulysses Journey 2022 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce. Ailís has been commissioned to create a music and film work as part of the celebrations....

This album, the newest release from Now and Then Media, premieres a new song cycle commissioned by Yonit Kosovske with funds from the Arts Council Music Commissions Award (2020).   Composed by Ailís Ní Ríain on poems by Jessica Brown from her book And Say (Revival...