Born in Dublin, Máire Flavin represented Ireland at Cardiff Singer of the World 2011, reaching the Song Prize final.  Working with companies such as Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne roles include: Nancy (Albert Herring), Mid Wales Opera; Dido, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing at Theatre Champs Elysées; Dorabella, Welsh National Opera; Mercedes (Carmen), Regents Opera; Jacinthe (Gretry's L'amant jaloux), Bampton Classical Opera; Musetta, Lyric Opera Ireland; Public Opinion, (Orpheus in the Underworld) Scottish Opera; cover Beatrice, Welsh National Opera; cover Nerone (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Glyndebourne on Tour.  Whilst a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama her roles included Nancy (Albert Herring); title role in Massenet’s Chérubin; Aurelio (Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais); The Queen of England  (Sallinen’s The King goes forth to France) and Clarina (Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio) as well as Venus (Oliver/Peri’s Euridice) for British Youth Opera.
 
With an affinity for song Máire made her RTE National Symphony Orchestra debut singing Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été.  She has also performed at the London Song Festival with Roderick Williams, the Music for Wexford recital series; Estoril Music Festival; Rose Street Recital Series in Belfast; taken part in the Graham Johnson Songmakers Almanac masterclasses and was the first singer to be the recipient of the concerto prize at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and performed Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with their orchestra in the National Concert Hall Dublin.
 
Máire finished her studies in 2011 at the National Opera Studio, London studying with Janice Chapman, having completed the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) where she received a Masters in Music Performance with distinction.  Máire began her vocal studies while reading Psychology and Music at Queen’s University Belfast with Irene Sandford and continued her studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin with Colette McGahon-Tosh.
 
Máire was generously supported during her studies by a Bank of Ireland Milliennium Scholarship, The Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Worshipful Company of Barbers and the Arts Council, Ireland.