Cliodhna Ryan enjoys a diverse career as a violinist. As a member of the Rothko String Trio, she made her London debut to critical acclaim at the Purcell Room in 2005. She has given world premieres of works by Donnacha Dennehy, Gerald Barry, Ian Wilson and Linda Buckley amongst others, and has performed with the Vanbrugh String Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Chroma, Crash Ensemble and s t a r g a z e. She is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and is frequently engaged as principal violinist with the R.T.E Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. Her education has taken her from the Royal Academy of Music in London to Dallas as a Fulbright Scholar and has spent two winters as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
In 2008, Cliodhna co-founded the ground-breaking Kaleidoscope music salon, which she co-curated and presented until 2013.
In December 2021 she launched the podcast Bittersweet Symphony, which she produced, edited and hosted. She has scripted and produced radio segments for Culture File, produced a Culture File Debate and has guest curated and presented The Purple Vespertine on RTE Lyric FM. Her writing has been published in the Irish Independent, on the RTE website, and she is the classical music columnist for The Goo music magazine.