Career
Darragh has established himself as a soloist of new music giving numerous recitals at Sonorities Festival, as well as in Prague, Malta, Nicosia, Hong Kong, South of Korea, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, United States. and throughout the United Kingdom & Ireland. He also plays with the piano trio The Fidelio Trio. Darragh regularly performs at international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Ars Musica Brussels, Klangspuren Scwaz, Darmstadt, Aldeburgh, Spitalfields, Cheltenham, OCM, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, New Music Evenings Bratislava, British Broadcasting Corporation Proms Chamber Music, National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa, Cutting Edge London, Festival Doctorate"Automne Paris, Besançon Festival de Musique, Lucerne Festival and Jazz sur les Pommiers, Coutance.
Darragh has performed with many of the worlds contemporary music groups including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Musik Fabrik, Icebreaker, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Remix Ensemble, Jane"s Minstrels and Topologies.
Darragh broadcasts regularly for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, has been chosen as British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Pick of the Week and also appeared on The South Bank Show, SABC, CYBC, RTHK, WDR and RTÉ lyric fm. He appears regularly as soloist with The Ulster Orchestra most recently in the world premiere of Sir John Tavener"s Hymn of Dawn.
From 1999-2001 Darragh was leader of the Cyprus State Orchestra and throughout 2004 was Concertmaster of the KZN Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa. During that year he also became Director of Baroque 2000 South Africa"s acclaimed period instrument orchestra.
He also regularly leads English Touring Opera, and was featured as leader of the orchestra in British Broadcasting Corporation 2"s acclaimed television series "The Genius of Beethoven".
The Fidelio Trio recently gave the European premiere of Michael Nyman"s The Photography of Chance. He regularly gives lecture-recitals on extended violin techniques recently at Queens University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin and King"s College London. Darragh teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London and was recently appointed "Musician in Residence" at the University of Ulster.
He has worked with a diverse range of international artists such as Travis, Paul McCartney, The Divine Comedy, David Bowie, The Spice Girls, The Corrs, Jamiroquai, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Incognito, The Lemon Heads and Brian Kennedy.
In the world of Irish Traditional Music Darragh has worked closely with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Nóirín Ní Riain and Derek Bell of The Chieftains.
