Irish composer Ciarán Farrell was born in Dublin in 1969 and graduated in composition from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. A self-taught teenage rock guitarist, he turned seriously to music at 22, studying classical guitar with John Feeley and later taking classes with Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He has received commissions from the BBC, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ Performing Groups, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, Craig Ogden, the Smith Quartet, Gerard McChrystal and many others, alongside extensive TV and film scoring. In March 2015 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s affiliation of distinguished artists. His long collaboration with guitarist Damien Kelly produced the chart-topping EP ‘Jolt’ and album ‘New Frontiers’, followed by his jazz-inflected ‘Opium Jazz’ EPs and the 2022 ‘Guitar by the Fire’ series. He lives in Howth, near Dublin.
