Ailie Robertson

Individual

TAYNUILT

Website

https://www.ailierobertson.com/

ailie.robertson@gmail.com

Phone

0783494916

Ailie Robertson (b.1983) is a multi-award winning composer, performer and creative curator whose work crosses the boundaries of traditional and contemporary music. Winner of the ‘Achievement in New Music’ prize at the inaugural New Music Scotland Awards, Ailie has received commissions, awards and residences from the PRS Foundation Creative Scotland, Enterprise Music Scotland, the CCA, Culture Ireland, Celtic Connections,EIFF, and CALQ Montreal. Recent commissions include pieces for the 2019 BBC Proms, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sound Festival, the Riot Ensemble, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bang on a Can, the Dunedin Consort, and the Glasgow School of Art Choir. She is currently Composer-in-Residence for Sound Scotland and Glyndebourne Opera.

As a harpist, she was awarded LiveIreland’s ‘Female Musician of the Year’. Her synthesis of Scottish, Irish and contemporary harping technique into an individual style represents the realization of “otherwise unimagined possibilities for the Celtic harp”. She has performed all around globe, both solo and with her band The Outside Track.