[10] In 1984, she won an instrumental scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford where she studied for a BA Honours degree in Music while continuing her piano performance schedule, also singing with the choir or Worcester College and with Schola Cantorum of Oxford.

[14] She has accompanied vocalists including Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Paul Agnew, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook,[15] and Clare Wilkinson.

She subsequently toured and recorded extensively with the group, which specialises in Renaissance and contemporary music and has received a number of awards.

[22][23][24] She is a founding member of Tenebrae, The Finzi Singers and the Britten Sinfonia Voices, and has performed with The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir,[25] The Dunedin Consort, Trinity Baroque, Les Arts Florissants,[26] La Grande Chapelle, The Scholars’ Baroque Ensemble, Pixels Ensemble[27] and the BBC Singers.

[35] On the subject of gifted children, she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme in September 2010[36][37] and in I was a Child Prodigy (2008).