An article on TAKEN has appeared in the Arts/Culture/Fashion magazine Stimulus Respond see pages 28-32.
TAKEN article in Stimulus Respond Magazine
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
New commission for Béal Festival, Ireland
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Ailís has been commissioned by Ireland’s Béal Festival which focuses on her particular area of interest – music and words in music-theatre performance. The new piece were be premiered as a new vocal commission for Béal Festival in Dublin in November 2012 alongside new works by composers Christopher Fox, Tom Johnson and David Bremner.
Ailís awarded funding by The Finzi Trust
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Ailís is delighted to have been recently awarded funding by The Finzi Trust to commence research into new music international projects in Eastern Europe. She is grateful to the Trust for their support and will begin her research by visiting Slovenia in 2012.
StreetSong at Irish Female Artists Exhibition, London
Friday, April 13, 2012
Ailís Ní Ríain’s ISCM World Music Days prize-winning electroacoustic piece StreetSong was chosen to accompany a new exhibition celebrating the work of contemporary Irish female visual artists in London from 15th to 25th March 2012.
StreetSong at The Manchester Irish Festival 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
StreetSong was played as part of the 2012 Manchester Irish Festival on 11th March at Manchester Cathedral alongside works by Irish composers Elaine Agnew, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and John Kinsella. This unique all-Irish programme launched the new Irish chamber orchestra – Invernia. 
Premiere at York Late Music Festival 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams premiered Mourning Bracelet by Ailís Ní Ríain in York on 7th April 2012 as part of York Late Music. It is a setting of a recent poem by the contemporary York-based poet Carole Bromley written in the voice of Charlotte Bronte as a woman haunted and over-shadowed by the ghosts of her deceased siblings. “I wear my sisters round my wrist. Loop over loop their twisted hair chafes my skin.
Premiere at WOW Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London
Friday, February 3, 2012
duoDorT premiered Quantitas Speaks, a new work they commissioned and developed at Aldeburgh Music, at the Royal Festival Hall on 9th March 2012 as part of Women of the World Festival.It was also performed at Newcastle University on 20th April.
Based on a new illustration by Artist Zeke Clough, Quantitas Speaks is composed for a new instrument, the Pianvoglass- a combination of glasses, pianos and voices and based on a new text by the composer.
“As brutal Beaujolais and murderous Merlot oil our maudlin memories-the extended tentacles of our minds connects us to hand, to heart, to hammer-klavier.” -Ailís Ní Ríain
StreetSong broadcast on RTE Lyric FM
Friday, February 3, 2012
StreetSong was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland in 2006 to celebrate their 20th anniversary was installed outside the Centre in the old Temple Bar area of Dublin city. It was broadcast on RTE Lyric FM’s Blue of the Night on 1st February and on Lyric FM’s Nova with Bernard Clarke on 5th February. StreetSong won the ISCM World Music Days sound art category in 2007 in Stuttgart and was chosen to represent Ireland on the 2009 MIDEM Irish Showcase CD.
StreetSong launched on CMC CD Volume 10
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A new CD featuring my 2006 piece StreetSong was launched on 7th December at the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland. StreetSong was commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland to celebrate their 20th anniversary and was installed for one month in the ‘old city’ area of Temple Bar, Dublin. It went on to win 1st Prize in the ISCM World Music Days sound art category in 2007 in Stuttgart and was chosen to represent Ireland on the 2009 MIDEM Irish Showcase CD. Subsequently, StreetSong has been programmed in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ireland and France. Watch interview.
Residency with DuoDorT at Aldeburgh Music
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
In November 2011 Ailís took part in a Residency at Aldeburgh Music with piano duo DuoDorT where she developed a new work for two pianos, voices, text and wine glasses based on an artwork by Manchester based Zeke Clough.
Quantitas Speaks will be premiered by DuoDorT in 2012.