Ciaran enjoys a varied musical life as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Recent solo engagements include the concerti of Bruch, Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Korngold.

He is a member of the Maggini Quartet, who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary season, and was a founding member of the Cavaleri Quartet, with whom he performed in major venues such as the Musikverein, Vienna, Auditorio Nacional, Madrid, Wigmore Hall, London and throughout New Zealand and Australia. They were First Prize winners at the 2012 Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition, Second Prize winners at the 2014 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and in 2011 won the Royal Over-Seas League Competition.

Ciaran has appeared as guest leader with orchestras such as the Ulster Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the Symphony Orchestra of India and in principal positions with the Sinfonia of London, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with ensembles such as the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Aurora, Camerata Nordica, Sweden and the Rasumovsky Ensemble.

He studied with Yossi Zivoni at the Royal College of Music in London as a Yehudi Menuhin Scholar and later in the chamber music class of Günter Pichler at the International Institute of Chamber Music, Madrid. He plays on a 1689 Cremonese violin by Andrea Guarneri, on generous loan from a private trust.