Who is Ciaran?

After spending last year collaborating with Walt Disney's creative Imagineering Division in Hollywood, Ciarán's music can now be heard on their Bluesky Group's Keynote Presentation. Currently scoring the new Stana Katic (ABC's Castle) movie Truth about Kerry, Ciarán is also working on music for an upcoming epic on the life of Mother Teresa, being shot by Academy Award nominated cinematographer Jack Green and directed by award winning director Bill Riead.

Winner of the prestigious 2009 International Solstice Commission to write the theme music for the new Solstice Arts Center in Europe, Ciarán was also recently selected to the Irish Panel of Artist and Crafts People that services major public arts programs in Ireland. He is also providing music for the current season of TBN's TV show JONI AND FRIENDS.

After completing a Fulbright Scholarship in film scoring. his first project was Michael Mann's THE INSIDER, which he orchestrated and the resulting score received a Golden Globe Nomination. Since then, Ciarán has stayed busy scoring films such as SCREW CUPID, TERESA, HOLLYWOOD HORROR, GRACE, ALL IN, INTERROGATION, MANFAST, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK and he even appeared on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER performing a specially arranged duet of his song. His music can also be heard on the documentary TV series HERE! FAMILY where he contributed both the theme and background score.

Aside from his film-scores, Ciarán has received much praise and recognition as a songwriter and producer. His band won both the pop music category and the overall Grand Prize at Artist Direct's "BornOnTheWeb" song contest, resulting in a first prize of $25,000, recording equipment and the opportunity of being the opening act for Star 98FMs "FanNation" hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Lisa Fox, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, CA. He performed alongside Eve 6, Third Eye Blind, The Go-Go's, Billy Idol, Uncle Cracker, The Counting Crows and The Wallflowers to name but a few. His music also had the unique position of holding 4 of the top 9 positions on the charts simultaneously on MP3.com - the precurser to the apple download charts.

Ciarán has written and produced songs for the Raleigh Studio's motion picture MANFAST, for the closing credits of the feature film THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, for the US national trailer of IT'S A GUY THING and forthe Lions Gate Films motion picture SURF SCHOOL. He arranged and produced tracks for BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, as well as producing a track with Ballistic Mystic via his collaboration with ATOMCANDY Records for New Line Films motion picture 15 MINUTES starring Robert DeNiro.

Ciarán is rather unique in the film industry in that he is recognized not only as a talented composer, but also as an accomplished film re-recording mixer. He has mixed movies such as the Raleigh Studios motion picture VIRGINIAS RUN, the hit independent documentary feature film BETTY BLOWTORCH, as well as shouldering the entire post-production sound responsibility for the documentary TV series HERE FAMILY and films such as SCREW CUPID, ALL IN, HOLLYWOOD HORROR, GRACE, THE HEALING and LITTLE STAR.

Being a skillful re-recording mixer in the film and television industries has enabled Ciarán as a composer to create a variety of scores, closely aligned with a films sound mix, which serve to strengthen the movies unique character and tone. The capacity to combining unmatched technical expertise with a deep understanding of an array of services, including composing, recording, mixing, sound design, ADR recording, dialogue/FX editing and re-recording mixing, leaves Ciarán incredibly well positioned to create a vibrant, relevant and exciting film score from within his innovative work structure.