[2] She continued her cello studies in Paris with Paul Bazelaire and also took composition lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale.
[7] After serving as a Petty Officer in the Women's Royal Navy Service during World War II, Dare was appointed principal cellist in the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh,[8] performing as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in 1946.
[12][13] Dare composed mostly small scale chamber music, including a distinctive set of works for cello.
[14] Her 1939 Piano Trio won the Royal College of Music Society of Women Musicians composition prize.
[15] Other works include pieces for string orchestra (such as the late Scottish Rhapsody, commissioned by the Scottish Amateur Musical Association in 1972 for the National Youth String Orchestra of Scotland),[16] three ballet scores (including For the Young Thumbeline, scored for two pianos and broadcast in 1964),[17] as well as songs and choral works.