Ciara is from Maidstone and has achieved much in a variety of musical arenas.  She was a member of the Kent Youth Choir, the Kent County Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. She then went to Manchester in 1993 to train as a concert-pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music. After getting her Bachelors’ Degree in Piano, she went on to gain both a Postgraduate Diploma and a Masters’ Degree in Music Performance (Piano).