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Aisling was born and raised in Belfast. She regularly performs worldwide and has been broadcast on BBC Radio, RTE Lyric FM and Classic FM. Aisling has given many high profile concerts including her Wigmore Hall début, Belfast Festival, and the National Flute Association’s 40th International Convention at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In 2006 she released her acclaimed début album Recital and has gone on to record several CDs such as Histoire du Tango, Standing Stones and her latest CD Bidla which was released in July 2015. Aisling mostly enjoys solo and chamber music and she performs in a duo with guitarist Matthew McAllister, with the Irish Memory Orchestra and Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble.
Aisling recently had her first child Martha who is looking forward to coming along to the concerts!
As a composer and performer, Ryan’s work has been performed to international audiences on four continents for over ten years. He has recorded as accompanist on over a dozen albums and his repertoire spans numerous genres from traditional Irish music to contemporary classical music. Ryan’s compositional work has won several prizes and has been broadcast both nationally and internationally on BBC Radio 3, Radio Ulster, RTÉ Lyric FM, Radio 1 and Ráidió na Gaeltachta as well as on BBC 2, UTV and BBC World. Innisfail, a CD of Ryan’s solo piano works, was released in 2016 by award-winning American pianist Alexander Bernstein.