Conductor - Ciarán Crilly

Ciarán read music at King's College London, studying violin with Gerhard Schmidt at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has a masters degree from Goldsmiths, University of London. After receiving an Irish Arts Council Conductors’ Award, he obtained a diploma in orchestral conducting at the Prague Conservatory of Music, studying under Jaroslav Vodňánsky. His other conducting teachers have included Dominique Rouits, James Cavanagh, Gerhard Markson and Peter Eötvös. Between 2002 and 2005, he was an IRCHSS Research Scholar at University College Dublin, where has been lecturing on 20th-century music since 2005. In 2008, UCD awarded Ciarán a PhD in musicology based on his thesis entitled “The (Syn)Aesthetics of Modernism: Music and Visual Art in the Early Twentieth Century”.
Ciarán became Principal Guest Conductor of the Dublin Symphony Orchestra in 2004 and Principal Conductor of the Dublin Orchestral Players in 2007. He has been Artistic Director of the UCD Symphony Orchestra since 2002 and of the Miró Chamber Orchestra since 2004. In 2005, he was highly commended by the pre-selection jury of the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors. Ciarán has also worked with the Dublin Screen Orchestra, Savaria Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), Cadaqués Orchestra (Spain), RIAM Symphony Orchestra, RIAM Wind Ensemble, Dublin County Choir, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Hibernian Orchestra and Dublin Baroque Players. As a violinist, Ciarán’s experience includes work with RTÉ, Irish Film Orchestra, Serenata String Quartet, Alpha Quartet, EAR Ensemble, Orlando Chamber Orchestra, Irish Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the Dvořák Festival (Czech Republic).