Trainees 2010/11

Sopranos
Lucinda-Mirikata Deacon
Susana Gaspar
Aoife O'Sullivan

Mezzo-sopranos
Justina Gringyte
Hanna Hipp

Tenors
Tyler Clarke
Nathan Vale
John Pierce

Baritones
Oliver Dunn
Duncan Rock

Bass
Jimmy Holliday
Ross McInroy

Repetiteurs
Sonia Ben-Santamaria
Julian Black
Elizabeth Rossiter

Maire Flavin mezzo soprano

Irish mezzo-soprano Máire Flavin has recently completed the award winning opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) studying with Janice Chapman where she received a Masters in Music Performance with distinction. She began her vocal studies with Irene Sandford while reading Psychology and Music in Queens University, Belfast and after graduating with honours in 2003 returned home to Dublin obtaining a First Class Diploma in Music Performance and Teaching (2006) and an MMus (2008) also with distinction, from the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) studying with Colette McGahon-Tosh. 

Trouser-roles have been a recent feature in Máire’s time at Guildhall with her portrayal of the title role in Massenet’s Chérubin being described as “one of the most successful in a trouser-role that I have ever seen” (classicalsource.com), “with her fluttery vibrato, juicy high notes, and a wonderfully idiomatic way with Massenet’s lilting phrases, here’s a star in the making” (The Times).  Other roles include Aurelio (Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais); Nancy (Albert Herring); The Queen of England (Sallinen’s The King goes forth to France) and Clarina (Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio) all for GSMD; Tisbe (La Cenerentola) for Clonter Opera; Venus (Oliver/Peri’s Euridice) for British Youth Opera; Clarice, (Rossini’s La Pietra del Paragone); First Witch (Dido and Aeneas) for RIAM and Cathleen (Riders to the Sea) for the Anna Livia Fringe festival. Máire is an alumna of both the Opera Theatre Company Young Artist and Britten Pears Young Artist programmes as well as a past member of Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s chorus.

Máire was the 2010 winner of the Thelma King award for singers and the recipient of the Harold Rosenthal Prize upon leaving Guildhall.  Past successes include the Irene Sandford Award and the Yamaha Vocal Scholarship for Ireland, 2007 and a performance of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with orchestra in the National Concert Hall, Dublin in March 2006 as the first singer to win the RIAM solo competition.

Máire is grateful to, and funded by, the Arts Council, Ireland.