Biography

From Sleat, the Isle of Skye, Màiri has been described as ‘outrageously talented’. Not only is she a prodigious talent on the clàrsach, but she also plays the fiddle and piano to an equally high standard. Currently studying at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, Màiri is a member of the Scottish National Children’s Orchestra.

Màiri has won a number of significant music awards at the Royal National Mod and other music festivals. She is currently the youngest finalist to compete for the Director’s Recital Prize at St Mary’s Music School.

Màiri has performed on the Celtic Connections Open Stage and plays clàrsach with the Celtic fusion jazz group Kitairuri. She is considered to be one of the most talented harpists of her generation who has the potential to develop into a significant musician of the next.

To date, Màiri’s most memorable concert was at the Skye Feis with the Luminescent Orchestrii of New York, a punk-gypsy-indie-kleismer group, playing clàrsach in the context of world music. Her verdict? “Gaelic riffs alongside Balkan stomping and Russian dance and Latin sounds was great”.

How the Award Helped

Since the Award

Since her Award, Màiri has been nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award twice, has been a finalist in the BBC Young Traditional & Jazz Musicians of the Year, and is now a graduate of the Berklee College of Music (which she attended with full scholarship).