Oisín Mac Diarmada (born 1978) is an Irish fiddler.

Biography

Oisín Mac Diarmada was born in 1978 in

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, and grew up in

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. He started playing the fiddle from an early age, and began winning competitions at age eight. He also won Fiddle solo and Duet titles as the All-Ireland Junior Champion at

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in 1988. In 1989, his family moved to

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and Oisín attended the music school in

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. He started studying classical piano at age 14. In 1999, Oisín won the All Ireland Fiddle Champion at

, and in 2000, graduated Trinity College, Dublin/RIAM (

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). In 2001, Oisín and his friends including bouzouki/guitar player Seán Mc Elwain, bodhrán player Tristan Rosenstock formed the Irish traditional music group '’

Téada Téada, an Irish band, plays traditional music. Téada is Irish for "strings". The five members of the band are fiddle player Oisín Mac Diarmada, button accordion player Paul Finn, Damien Stenson performs on flute, Seán Mc Elwain switches ...

.'’ In 2008, the Innisfree Céilí Band he join with brother Cormac and sister Máire became the first band from the North Connacht region to win the All-Ireland Senior Céilí Band Competition at

. As of 2016, he lived in Coolaney, County Sligo. With various music playing, he is the director of SCT (Scrúdu Ceol Tíre) Traditional Irish Music Examinations at CCÉ, and the Management of his record label Ceol Productions and his music management company Musical Ireland.

Discography

;solo * ''Ar an bhFidil'' (2004,

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) * '' The Green Branch / An Géagán Glas'' (2015, Ceol Productions) ;with Seamus Begley * ''Le Chéile / Together'' (2012, Ceol Productions) * ''An Irish Christmas Soundscape'' (2012, Ceol Productions) ;with Brian Fitzgerald and Michael Rooney * '' Traditional Music on Fiddle, Banjo & Harp '' (2000, CIC (

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) ) ;Irish Christmas in America * '' Irish Christmas in America '' (2012, Ceol Productions) ; Téada * ''Téada'' (2003, Green Linnet Records) * ''Give Us a Penny and Let Us Be Gone'' (2004, Green Linnet Records) * ''Inné Amárach (Yesterday Tomorrow) '' (2006,

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) * ''Ceol & Cuimhne (Music And Memory)'' (2010, Gael-Linn Records) * ''Ainneoin Na Stoirme (In Spite of the Storm) '' (2013, Ceol Productions) ; Innisfree Céilí Band * '' Music of North Connacht '' (2009, Ceol Productions)

References

External links

Comhaltas : ComhaltasLive #419-10: Scoil Éigse Tutors
movie of the tutor's concert at summer school

Scoil Éigse Scoil Éigse is the official summer school organised by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann where Irish people and students from the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and North America go to obtain a better and deeper understanding of Irish music and cultur ...

in Derry, 22 September 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Diarmada Oisin 1978 births 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people Living people Irish fiddlers Irish folk musicians Musicians from County Clare 21st-century violinists Green Linnet Records artists