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Born in Cork, the international prize-winning Irish classical Composer and Writer Ailís Ní Ríain aims to produce work which challenges, provokes and engages. She is particularly interested in cross-discipline collaboration, public sound art, opera, music-theatre and presenting contemporary music in diverse spaces. She has been represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland since 1999 (www.cmc.ie) where you can obtain scores and recordings of her music. As a playwright she is represented by Casarotto Ramsay (London). Her debut play TILT is published by Nick Hern Books. She received her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2008. She lives in the North of England in the United Kingdom. Please see www.ailis.info for full details.

She is a Composition graduate of University College Cork, University of York, University of Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music. Her compositions have been performed all over Europe, in the USA and on Irish, Greek and German Radio. She is grateful to Arts Council England and the Arts Council of Ireland for financial support.

Recent projects include Lighthouse Lullaby, a site-specific sound installation for Maryport Lighthouse on the west coast of Cumbria which led to a Channel 4 film and BBC Radio 4 Today programme coverage. Stones was a new work for Rossendale Male voice Choir, a commission for Valley of Stone, celebrating the quarrying history Rossendale in Lancashire. Ailis received her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2008. 2 Steep 4 Sheep was performed by Psappha contemporary music ensemble in 2008.