After graduating from the Melbourne Conservatorium in 1982, she studied with Antonio Moretti-Pananti of the Victorian Opera.
She was a resident artist with that company for the next three years, appearing as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, and the title roles in Jules Massenet's Manon and Emmerich Kálmán's Grafin Mariza.
[2] In 1985 she was the soprano soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Canberra Choral Society at Llewellyn Hall.
In 1991, she made her debut with the English National Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.
That same year she was a featured soloist at the Bath Mozartfest and toured Holland and Belgium in concerts.