Career in Music
Tiarnán has recorded, performed and toured with numerous musicians over the years, including Tommy Peoples, Laoise Kelly, Paul O Shaughnessy, Brian Finnegan and brothers Niall and Cillian Vallely, and Máire Ní Bhraonáin (Clannad).
He has played and presented radio and television programmes for BBC, RTE and TG4, and features on several albums.
Discography
Reggish Paddy - Solo Uilleann Piping
Ar Lorg na Laochra - Harp and Pipes with Laoise Kelly
Ceol is Piob - Solo pipes and Stephanie Makem (vocals)
Whisper to the Wild Water -Moya Brennan
A Time of Change - The Vards
Stand by me - Flemming Bamse Jorgensen
Two Horizons - Moya Brennan
Learn to play the uilleann pipes - The Armagh Pipers Club
40 Years - The Armagh Pipers Club
Ben Reel - Ben Reel Band (2 albums)
Celtic Collections - Rua
Dream-Teller - Rua Dorsa - Dorsa
Dana’s Ireland - Dana
Beyond the Breaking Glass - Hazel O'Connor Irish German Folk Festival Tour - Mad for Trad
Monto - Monto
The Wild Music of the Gael - Dorsa
Session of the millenium - Outlet Records, Belfast
Gentle on my Mind - Patrick Feeney
Live Recordings From the William Kennedy Piping Festival
Mark Forest - American singer/songwriter Gaelscoil Ultain -CD - recording two live tracks - Donegal
Echoes of Monaghan - two guest tracks
Work and Dignity - Ned Ludd
Festivals & Concerts
Tiarnan has performed at a multitude of festivals, events and venues throughout the world, including the ones listed below.
Image: Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn & Laoise Kelly, National Concert Hall, Dublin, September 2025
National Folk Festival, Canberra, Australia Beggar’s Opera -Baroque Orchestra from Conservatory of Arles, France
Last Night at the Proms, Dundee, Scotland with BBC orchestra
John Cage - Roaratorio - Belfast, York University
Celtic Connections - Luke Daniels
Copenhagen Irish Festival - Solo
Dranouter Folk Festival - Dorsa
Expo 2000 in Hannover - with Dorsa
Viljandi festival - Dorsa
Vicar Street, Dublin - Maire Ni Bhraonain
Epopee Celtique, Lorient Festival - Featured solo Uileann piper with orchestra
New Scottish Orchestra - with Maire Ni Bhraonain
Piping Live, Glasgow - solo
Albiez Alps Festival - solo and with Laoise Kelly
Cite de la Musique, Marseille - solo and with Laoise Kelly
Point Theatre, Dublin with Maire Ni Bhraonain
William Kennedy Piping Festival, Armagh - solo,
Steve Cooney, Laoise Kelly, Paul O Shaughnessy, Brian Finnegan, John McSherry,
Cambridge Folk Festival - Aoife Ni Fhearraigh and Maire Ni Bhraonain
New Zealand Piping Festival - solo
The Earth Celebration Festival Okinawa, Japan with Maire Ni Bhraonain
Lorient Interceltique Festival - solo
Quimper Folk Festival - Niall Vallely, Karan Casey
TV, Film & Theatre
Tiarnan has played the uilleann pipes and whistles on the following film soundtracks and television series etc:
Flosc - TG4 Music series
Geantrai - Tiarnan presented and performed -TG4 Music series
Seinn Liom - BBC - featured artist
Blas Ceoil - several performances both solo and with others
The Pure Drop - RTE music series
The Late Late Show - with Maire NI Bhaonain Taisce na Tuaithe - (BBC) 2012,
Gay Byrne’s Music - RTE music production
Rose of Tralee - featured artist at the interval of RTE show
Music of Ireland - TV and DVD programme for PBS in USA with artists, Seamus Begley, John Sheahan, Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Cormac de Barra, Shane McGowan (Pogues), Sinéad O Connor, Damien Dempsey, Liam O Maonlaí, Glen Hansard and many more Irish musicians.
Films
The Closer You Get - film soundtrack
Flyvende Farmor - soundtrack
Theatre Abbey Theatre production - The Hunt for Red Willie