At age 10, she was accepted into the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, in the studio of Noel Flores.
At age 14, she immigrated to the United States, attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, studying with Julian Martin.
She received an Artist Diploma from Peabody and also holds a bachelor's degree in German Literature from Johns Hopkins University.
After college, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to study with the pianist Dominique Weber.
She has also worked with Richard Goode and Blanca Uribe in New York, and with Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy.