Although she was diagnosed as incurably deaf at the age of five, she had fully recovered her hearing a few months after moving to Canada in 1982.
From 1994 to 1998, she studied composition with Allan Gordon Bell at the University of Calgary, receiving a BMus.
From 1998 to 2004, she studied with Gary Kulesha and Chan Ka Nin at the University of Toronto, receiving a MMus and DMus in composition.
[1] She has composed music for Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater which was performed by major orchestras across Canada in 2013-14.
In 2005, she received first prize in the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region's competition for emerging composers.