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Born in Cork, the Irish classical composer and writer Ailís Ní Ríain combines her interests as a composer, devisor and writer to produce works which challenge, provoke and engage. 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. She lives in the North of England in the United Kingdom. In 2004 Ailís she was honoured to represent Ireland in Culture2000 in Rome and Greece with Salvatore Sciarrino.
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. In 2006, supported by Arts Council England, Ailis was selected as one of 5 international composers to attend Interact Collaborative Project in Denmark.
StreetSong (2006) won joint-first prize at the 2006 ISCM* World New Music Days Short Cuts: Beauty Competition in Stuttgart (*International Society of News Music). StreetSong (2006), an outdoor sound installation was commissioned by The Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland and Temple Bar Properties. It has since been broadcast on RTE Lyric FM Irish national radio, in Festivals in Germany, UK, Switzerland and on German radio.
Other awards include 2nd place for EXIT in the Vienna Modern Masters 2006 The Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera, first prize in the Brass in Association/SPNM competition (2002) for her work for solo trombone flat-footed-former-flyer, first prize in the Composer’s Class of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition (2000) and the IMRO/Mostly Modern Composition Competition (1999).
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 when DON'T! was performed. 2 Steep 4 Sheep has been performed by Psappha in Manchester and Lancaster and Lighthouse Lullaby was revived for Sonic Picnic Festival in Cumbria.
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