She holds a B.A (Hon) Degree in Music from Dartington College of Arts 1980 and an M.Mus. Degree in Electro-acoustic Composition, University of East Anglia 1997. Her vocal research into has taken her to Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, (1987) Mongolia (1994) Kazakhstan, and Kyrgistan (1999).She is currently a composer, singer, musician with the RSC’s Royal Shakespeare’s History Company.