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Born in Belfast, Ciaran currently resides in London, where he enjoys a varied musical life as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. He has performed as soloist throughout Ireland and the UK and broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster. As a member of the Harpham Quartet, Park Lane Group Artists for 2007/08, he has performed in major venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, Barbican Hall, Cadogan Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow.  
Ciaran is a regular leader and principal player of a wide variety of ensembles, and recently appeared as guest leader of the RTE Concert Orchestra and English Touring Opera. At the Royal College of Music, he was leader of the symphony and opera orchestras. In 2005 he was invited to be a member of the United Nations Orchestra for concerts in Moscow, conducted by Valerie Gergiev, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII.
A previous winner of the Milton Violin Award from the Arts Council of N. Ireland, he has been selected for their Young Artists' Platform Scheme, which has enabled him to further his studies abroad in Dallas and in Europe with international artists such as the Korean violinist, Chee-Yun and Gordan Nikolitch, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra. In September he will appear as guest leader of the National Symphony Orchestra of India. Ciaran performs on a 1708 Carlo Tononi violin, kindly on loan from Florian Leonhard.