In 2009 Ciara began her career as a classical Conductor, and is currently…

Founder & Music Director - Maidstone Voices

Conductor - Kent Youth Choir 

Music Director - Maidstone Choral Union

Music Director -  East Malling Singers 

Founder & Music Director - Maidstone Youth Music Society Voices 

Founder & Music Director - Maidstone Community Orchestra  

Conductor - Beating Time 

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Maidstone Voices

Founder - Music Director

Ciara is the founder and Music Director of the Maidstone Voices, a welcoming, non-auditioned choir for the community, formed in 2019. This friendly choir comprises people aged 18 and over. Their concerts prove popular and the choir is thriving with over 50 members. 

Maidstone Voices

Kent Youth Choir

Kent Music

In 2021, Ciara was pleased to accept the prestigious role of Conductor of the Kent Youth Choir, an auditioned choir of Kent’s most talented singers, aged 14 to 21. The choir performs advanced choral repertoire spanning a variety of genres and periods and meets for singing days and residential choir courses in the school holidays. Ciara was previously a Conductor of the Kent Youth Singers and the County Junior Choirs; those roles were especially close to her heart, as she herself is a product of the Kent Youth Choirs.

Kent Youth Choir

Maidstone Choral Union

Conductor - Music Director

This long-respected choir, the Maidstone Choral Union, was formed 121 years ago when a group of gentlemen in Maidstone, Kent, UK, wanted to join the ladies Glee Club in 1902. Ciara is very happy to accept the post of Conductor and Music Director, starting April 2023.

Maidstone Choral union

East Malling Singers

Ciara has been the Music Director of the East Malling Singers, a long established, mixed-voice choir of 90 singers, since 2013.  The choir performs a wide variety of sacred and secular music, regularly working with London’s operatic soloists and an orchestra comprising talented freelance professionals.

East Malling Singers

MYMS Voices

Maidstone Youth Music Society

Ciara is the Conductor and founder of the MYMS Voices, a non-auditioned children's choir which she started in 2014, growing from a cohort of just 5 to 90 singers in 2020. She's rebuilding its numbers and confidence post-pandemic; it's thriving again today, taking children from ages 4 to 18.  As a former member of MYMS herself, Ciara is able to combine her passion for conducting with giving back to an organisation that means a lot to her.

MYMS Voices choir

Beating Time Choirs

Choirs for people serving sentences

Since 2019, Ciara has been working with the award-winning organisation Beating Time, bringing the joys of singing to people serving sentences. 

Beating time

Maidstone Community Orchestra

Starting Soon

Starting soon, an orchestra for the community!

Maidstone Community Orchestra

Guest Conductor

Community Groups / School choirs

Following her success with Gareth Malone, on the 2014 BBC2 series Sing While You Work (Ciara was the off-camera Conductor of the P&O Ferries choir who won the series competition) she is regularly invited to give one-off workshops to school choirs and community groups, most recently Mumma Mia and the Tunbridge Wells WI. She enjoys collaborative concerts with the Kent Police Male Voice Choir, the Tunbridge Wells Orpheus Male Voice Choir and groups from Ireland, France and Germany. You can contact Ciara here if you are interested in booking her for a workshop with your group. 

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The Vigo Singers

Under Ciara's musical leadership for 14 years, the Vigo Singers have enjoyed a rich and varied repertoire of classical and contemporary music and the choir has enjoyed tours over the years, to Ireland and France for collaborative performances with choirs there. She now hands the baton to her colleague and friend, John Hayden.