About
Eimear Reidy is an experimental musician and improvising cellist with a composition practice focused both on new music for solo cello and collaborative composing with her fellow musicians and sound artists. Reidy’s work focuses on the rigorous exploration and development of extended cello techniques, combined with the occasional use of electronics, field recordings and objects creating a broad expressive palette.
Things That Happened At Sea Eimear’s debut solo album was released on Nyahh Records in 2020. Also releasd on Nyahh Records are two duo albums with Natalia Beylis She Came Through The Window To Stand By The Door, and Whose Woods These Are.
Eimear has performed her own work at The Hundred Years Gallery, London, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Kirkos, Dublin, Whelan?s, Dublin, The Empire Belfast The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick On Shannon, The Source Arts Centre and as part of concert series and festivals including Feile Na Greine, Limerick, Live at St. Lukes, Quiet Lights and Electric Circus and Skibbereen Arts Festival, Spike Cello Festival and Reception.
Commissioned compositions and performances include Intermittent? for Glen Loughran’s Exhibition After the Future Of Work. The Dock Arts Centre for Paul Hallahan’s Exhibition The Sheltering Sky and Orla McHardy, Anna Spearman and Cian Benson Bailes Exhibition The Invited Guests. Tara Baoth Mooney for a screening of Mammary Mountain. Hunters Moon Festival film soundtrack for Tumuli with Orla McHardy. Edwina Guckian new work devised with Comhaltas Liotroma.
Collaboration is central to Eimear’s practice. Most recent collaborative projects include a new body of work recorded with Anthony Kelly and Irene Murphy for Farpoint Recordings, new works recorded with Larissa O’Grady on residency at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Around Here The Birds Plant The Trees with Natalia Beylis, Ailbhe Nic Oireacthaigh, Tola Custy, Ultan O’Brien and Willie Stewart recorded for Nyahh Records, Axis Mundi, Carrowkeel as Dreamspace with Tara Baoth Mooney performed at Skibbereen Arts Festival and Cairde Festival Sligo, and Eimear is currently Musician In Residence at The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick On Shannon.