Fiana Ní Chonaill

Biography

Fiana hails from Castleconnell, Co Limerick. She comes from a family that has been involved in Irish music for three generations and was reared in a household immersed in the Irish music tradition. Fiana began learning harp under the tuition of Dr. Janet Harbison and toured extensively throughout Europe as part of the Irish Harp Orchestra. She completed her BA in Irish Music and Dance in 2012 with a First Class Honours degree from the University of Limerick. She went onto graduate from Newcastle University, UK with an Mmus in Musicology in 2013. She is an All-Ireland champion harper and 2016 marked the release of her solo harp CD ‘Dathanna an Cheoil’. Fiana has taught and toured in Ireland, the UK and Europe having been invited to various international harp festivals including the International Harp Meeting in Dinan, France in 2018.