"In 1936, Brunskill appeared as Kundry alongside Herbert Heyner, Norman Walker and Victor Harding in a presentation of "Parsifal" for the BBC under Sir Henry Wood.In 1938 she appeared in the English première of Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler"

On 5 October 1938, in celebration of Sir Henry Wood's golden jubilee as a conductor, Brunskill sang in the first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music" along with fifteen other leading English singers including another Marchesi pupil, Astra Desmond.