Torrin Ryan became enamored with Irish traditional music at 9 years old and has devoted the past twenty-plus years to playing, recording, and teaching the uilleann pipes, simple system flute, and tin whistle across the country and abroad.

Torrin taught at the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Boston Music School for a decade, is a regular instructor and fmr board member of the Northeast Uilleann Pipers Tionól, and is a proud member of the Boston Uilleann Piper’s Club. In 2018 and 2019, Torrin was the recipient of grants from the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. In 2009 at age 14, he was awarded an Uilleann Piping Scholarship by Na Píobairí Uilleann, Dublin IE.

Torrin has also been awarded over two dozen first place medals across several years of competing at the Mid-Atlantic Fleadh in New York and New Jersey, and won five Senior All-Ireland Fleadh medals across Derry, Ennis, and Tullamore all before turning twenty.

He has been influenced by many different styles of Irish piping and Irish music that were prominent throughout history as well as many modern and younger musicians, and he likes to incorporate what he has learned from both historical recordings and present-day pipers into his own music.

Updated October 2024. Please discard all previous dated materials.

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I’m very happy to announce my solo album:

Uilleann Piping from the ‘Boros

This recording is a snapshot of what Irish music now means to me, thanks to the sources that have shaped and informed my piping over the past decades.

I’ve spent over a decade with this album’s concept in my mind: a fully solo album of uilleann piping in which I would accomplish every aspect with my own abilities. I played the tunes, recorded, mixed and mastered, and did the art all on my own. The intent is to showcase exactly who I am both musically and beyond at this moment in time. To have a ‘snapshot’ of sorts that I can be proud of and grow from. The music on this album is important and has grown with me, for one reason or another, and I’m happy to put it out into the world.