Quiet Lights: Eimear Reidy

“A soundtrack for a planet being born…this music feels like something that’s existed within us for millennia, but only now has someone been able to tap into its visceral nature and extract it for all the world to hear. Exquisite”.

Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

“Her intensely lyrical use of the instrument shines through, gentle bows of the strings summoning soft groans and shivering luminescence.”

Daryl Worthington, The Quietus

Eimear Reidy is a cellist, composer and improviser whose music blends baroque traditions and rhetorical style with the extended techniques of improvised and experimental music. Eimear has performed in concert halls throughout Europe including The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Vredenburg, Utrecht, Krakow Filharmonia, Symphony Hall, Birmingham and The NCH, Dublin.

She has been commissioned to write and perform for theatre, visual art and dance and regularly performs new work as a soloist and with a variety of ensembles at contemporary art centres and festivals including The Dock, The Sirius Arts Centre, The Guest House, Body and Soul, Feile Na Greine, Idir Dha Thra, Spike Cello Festival and Tradition Now.

In 2023 Eimear performed solo work as part of Yann Tiersen’s Ninnog tour of Ireland. Eimear appears on a number of releases on Nyahh Records, namely her solo cello album Things That Happened At Sea. Two duo albums with Natalia Beylis Whose Woods These Are and She Came Through The Window To Stand By The Door and Mohanned Syfkhan’s, I am Kurdish.

Eimear is currently studio artist at The Dock in Carrick On Shannon.

Doors at 1:45. Performance at 2 p.m. (45 mins)

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