In 1971, aged 17, she received a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where in 1974, she was awarded with Student of the Year prize.
[citation needed] She made her debut in England in 1978 at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, again as Pamina in a new production by John Cox.
She continued adding to her repertoire with Sophie in Massenet's Werther and a Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera House in 1979.
[1] In 1990, she sang at HM The Queen Mother's 90th Birthday celebration at the London Palladium in a section dedicated to Scotland.
She sang "My Ain Folk" and appeared with Her Majesty's PM John Spoore and actress Geraldine McEwan with a reading of recollections of childhood in Glamis.