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Home > Composers’ Fund Grantee: Ailís Ní Ríain

Composers’ Fund Grantee: Ailís Ní Ríain

Composers’ Fund Grantee: Ailís Ní Ríain

Ailís Ní Ríain is a contemporary classical composer. Her work has been performed and broadcast internationally. Ní Ríain’s Debut Disc portrait album was released by NMC Recordings in 2023, receiving many favourable reviews. Ailís works broadly in the areas of concert music, music installation and music -theatre and has collaborated throughout her career with writers, dancers, visual artists, filmmakers, technologists and theatre artists.

Ailís is deaf/hard of hearing. She has worked with DadaFest, Unlimited, Arts & Disability Ireland, Shape Arts,Drake Music and Outside In. She is a long-time advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion in the arts and a board member of Disability Arts Online.Recent projects include a commission for Dame Evelyn Glennie and the New London Chamber Ensemble, the BBC Philharmonic, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, RTÉ ConTempo String Quartet, Wired a full-length disabled, dance-theatre production for The Shed New York, London Sinfonietta, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Composers’ Fund will help contribute towards a multi-strand professional development activity including 1:1 time with musicians to development new work, mentoring and international networking.

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