Biography
Marie Dare (1902–76) was born in Newport-on-Tay and studied at the Guildhall School of Music, where she was awarded the Gold Medal for instrumentalists and the Sir Landon Ronald and Guildhall composition prizes. Her teachers were Warwick Evans and W H Squire and (in composition) Benjamin Dale.
She was chosen as soloist in the Victory Concert at the Royal Albert Hall after the First World War.
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She went on to study cello in Paris with Paul Bazelaire and composition with Benjamin Dale, winning a Society of Women Musicians composition prize with her piano trio.
She gave recitals in Vienna, Budapest and London, including one in the Aeolian Hall devoted to her own compositions.
After serving in the WRNS in the Second World War, she became principal cellist of the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh, and was for many years a member of the Scottish Trio with Wight Henderson and Horace Fellows.
Most of her compositions are for small chamber forces, many featuring the cello. She also wrote several songs, and three ballet scores, including Thumbeline, for two pianos.
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