'This is art which requires courage and conviction both to produce and create. Listening to it stops me in my tracks. This is a composer who can get right under the skin.'
The Journal of Music in Ireland

The Irish composer, musician and writer Ailís Ní Riaín combines her interests in composing and writing to produce works which explore her myriad artistic interests.

She is a graduate of University College, Cork, the University of York, the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music, where she became the first Junior Fellow in Education. Although her formal training has primarily been in classical music as a composer and pianist, Ailis has been writing texts for many years, often incorporating these within her compositions.

She is particularly interested in sound installation, voice theatre, art in rural settings, music-theatre and presenting contemporary music in diverse spaces.

Her music has been performed in the USA, Italy, Holland, the UK, Ireland and France, and she has been commissioned by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland in association with the Temple Bar Cultural Trust to compose an outdoor sound installation to celebrate the 20" anniversary of CMC: StreetSong will play continuously throughout June 2006 in the streets of Temple Bar.

Another recent commission Missing Persons is an electro-acoustic sound installation piece for COLLECTIVE with her own photographic images and texts.

Stop Press:  Street Song has won joint first prize in an international competition in Stuttgart, Germany during the 2006 ISCM World New Music Festival.

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