Biography

Kierah is a musical gem from White Rock, B.C. She began playing violin when she was four years old and is currently studying grade nine Royal Conservatory. Kierah received “first class honours with distinction” for her grades four, six and eight conservatory exams. She is a very disciplined and dedicated member of the Semiahmoo Strings Senior Orchestra.

At five years old Kierah was introduced to fiddle music with which she has played with a passion ever since, true to her Irish roots. She has performed at many fairs and weddings and has been a regular busker at Vancouver’s Granville Market for the past six years. Last summer Kierah wowed audiences in Dam Square, Amsterdam as well as in the streets of Nice in southern France.

This fiddling virtuoso began composing music for the fiddle and the piano at ten years old. She creates in a style uniquely her own—west coast style! She has had the privilege of being taught by such fiddle greats as Gordon Stobbe, Daniel Lapp, David Greenberg and Troy MacGillivray.