Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude among others. Many of Walshe’s recent projects focus on the planet Mars, using it as a lens to think through the most pressing issues of our time. Notable projects from this series include MARS I, for Klangforum Wien and Some Notes on Martian Sonic Aesthetics, 2034-51 for Ensemble Modern, culminating in MARS (2025) for Irish National Opera. Walshe has worked with AI for over a decade. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance, her third solo album, was released on Tetbind in 2020. The album uses AI to rework canonical works from early Western music history. A Late Anthology was chosen as an album of the year in The Irish Times, The Wire and The Quietus. Her book 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music was published by Unsound in 2025. In the Merry Month of May, Walshe’s duo album with Tony Conrad, was released in 2024. Walshe is Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. Her work has been profiled in many publications including The New Yorker.