AILEEN SWEENEY
Magnum Opus 2022 Composer
Featured in BBC Music Magazines 'Rising Star' column, Aileen is a multi-award winning composer, arranger, accordionist and podcaster from Glasgow, who studied at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Her music is rooted in the traditional folk music she grew up with playing the accordion and is often influenced by her interests in fields in cosmology, nature and folklore alongside an admiration for many different genres of music.
Aileen's music has been performed across the UK from pubs on The Isle of Skye, to primary schools in Glasgow to The Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Composition highlights include commissions from Huddersfield, Cheltenham and Presteigne Festivals, The CBSO, The Colin Currie Quartet, and Red Note Ensemble as well as successfully applying to the The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s, The Royal Philharmonic Society and Britten Sinfonia’s Magnum Opus Scheme.
As well as composing, Aileen co-founded the folk-fusion band Eriska who have self-released two albums, co-hosts the award-winning podcast Ear to the Ground and teaches at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Junior Academy.
