FULLBLEED (Check out the songs above! 2 are from performances with the Berklee College of Music Tower of Power Ensemble, one is a recording of Soulive's 'Steppin' with the Erin Barra Band Live in Salt Lake City. Im playing organ on all those. One is an original piece for orchestra that I wrote and conducted for Virginia Tech. and the others are original compositions being performed by me and some of my good friends. Hope you like!)
Originally from Cork, Ireland, Cian McCarthy is a 22 year old pianist, keyboardist and composer.
He began studying classical piano at the age of 5 at the City Music College in Ireland. At the age of 16, after spending a year studying with Jan Cap at the Cork School of Music, he won a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music, Boston, US, from where he recently graduated with honors.
While at Berklee, Cian developed a deep love for anything keyboard-related and is an in-demand keyboardist, often playing the B-3 organ and Fender Rhodes as much as acoustic piano on styles that range from Post-bop and Soul/R&B to Classic Rock, Pop, Blues and Folk.
Cian has performed and recorded with such artists as Dan Rieser (currently with Norah Jones), The Collective, Stephen O' Keefe, Jimmy Canti and Michael Cody. In Ireland he has performed at the National Concert Hall, the Ambassador Theater, Cork Opera House and the Half-Moon Club among others. He regularly performs at the Guinness Jazz Festival, Ireland, and has performed live on national TV with the rock band Kudos. In the US, he has performed at Ryles Jazz Club, the House of Blues, SOB's and the Reggie Lewis Arena among others and early in 2007, he won the Jazz Performance Award at Berklee.
As a Music Director, Cian has worked on such productions as 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' at the Zack Box in Boston and 'Robin Hood' at the Hudson Guild Theater in New York. In Ireland: 'Les Miserables', 'Oliver' and 'Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' aswell as the premiere of 'Dance Overtures' at the Cork Opera House. In 2005 he conducted the hit show 'Babes in the Wood' at the Cork Opera House.
Cian currently lives in New York where he is an Associate Conductor of the Tony award-winning Broadway musical 'In The Heights' and performs with Pop/R&B artist Erin Barra.
