混声コーラスが醸し出す「空間」を素直に受け止めれば、まず身体から、やがてじわじわと心に。
If you take in the “space” created by the mixed chorus with an open mind, it is felt first in the body, and then, gradually, it works its way into the heart ~ CD Journal, Japan

Anúna is legitimate folklore that weaves religious and secular threads into an enchanting sonic tapestry... ~ Billboard, USA

「神秘的なケルティック・コーラス・グループ」というありがちなイメージに包まれつつも、アヌーナは実際には、ケルト音楽を巧妙かつ大胆に逸脱し、その可能性を広げてきた、きわめてユニークな集団である。そこにあるのは、時間を直線的に進めない感覚だ。アヌーナの声は、物語を説明するためのものではない。観客を異界へと導く風景そのものなのである。
“Although often wrapped in the familiar image of a ‘mystical Celtic chorus group’, Anúna is in fact an exceptionally unique ensemble that has skilfully and boldly moved beyond Celtic music, expanding its possibilities… What is present there is a sense of time that does not move in a straight line… Anúna’s voices are not there to explain a story. They are the very landscape that leads the audience into another world.” ~ 松山晋也 (Shinya Matsuyama) Artes Publishing, Japan

Anúna luo musiikillaan tilan, jossa aika tuntuu pysähtyvän ja kuulija joutuu kuuntelemaan toisin.
Anúna creates, through its music, a space in which time seems to stand still and the listener is compelled to listen differently.
~ Aamulehti, Finland

"With Anúna, the worlds of choral, classical and traditional music intersect with ease, a place where heaven meets the horizon in perfect coalescence" ~ Hot Press, Ireland

"Michael McGlynn is a remarkable composer and leader of the choral group Anúna. Most of Michael's pieces draw on Irish early-Christian and pre-Christian texts as well as traditional airs and lyrical themes. These sources are recast in Michael's beautiful and startling music" ~ Elvis Costello

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Composer Michael McGlynn founded ANÚNA in 1987 in an effort to create a choral voice for his homeland, Ireland. The name ANÚNA was derived from An Uaithne, a collective term for the three ancient types of Irish music - Suantraí (lullaby), Geantraí (happy song) and Goltraí (lament). Today Anúna is the parent ensemble of the ANÚNA COLLECTIVE which includes the ensembles Systir and M’ANAM.

Unlike other European nations, Ireland does not have an indigenous choral tradition and Michael saw this as a unique opportunity to create a new form or choral singing that would take the best of contemporary practices and fuse it with the singular aspects of the Irish tradition of singing, sean nós, and the country’s rich creative heritage. This required him to compose and arrange music for the group that reflects his own deep relationship to the Irish language, history and landscape. Over the decades, this music has expanded its vision beyond its initial ethos, becoming part of the repertoire of choirs across the Earth, and today ANÚNA itself inhabits a unique place in the world of ensemble singing - an entity that grows and develops organically, becoming one of the most interesting and original vocal music institutions in the world.

ANÚNA have sung on many of the greatest stages in the world including the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Orchard Hall Tokyo, Radio City Music Hall in New York and Minneapolis Symphony Hall.  The group have headlined at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

In February 2017 ANÚNA performed, in collaboration with a full Noh theatrical company, the play Takahime, a Japanese adaptation of W.B. Yeats' At the Hawk's Well in Tokyo, and in December 2024 performed Yuki-onna / The Snow Woman at Sumida Hall in Tokyo. Both productions featured scores created by Michael.

ANÚNA have been signed to some of the world's major record labels including Decca, Atlantic, Gimell, Universal Classics, Koch, Polygram and Philips. They have release at least twenty albums that feature McGlynn’s original compositions and arrangements. Invocation won a National Entertainment Award for classical music in Ireland while Deep Dead Blue was nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 1999. Celtic Origins (2007), also an award-winning PBS show and DVD, became the number one selling CD on the US World Music Charts while the album Christmas Memories, also a PBS TV special and DVD, reached the Hot 100 of the Billboard Album Chart in 2011. In February 2025 ANÚNA released Eilifð, a startlingly beautiful record completed in Iceland and ended 2025 with the beautiful compilation Tochairm, and exploration of the the transcendental compositions of Michael McGlynn.