Her early studies in piano and voice were locally in Delaware, then at Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw and Dino Yannopolous.
She performed Countess Geschwitz in the American premiere of the completed three-act version of Lulu at Santa Fe Opera.
She has been heard in recital across the United States and in Paris, Cologne, Zurich, Milan and at the Aix-en-Provence, Geneva, Spoleto and Salzburg Festivals.
She is also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda as well as Phi Beta Delta, and the only American ever to be invited to sit on the French National Conservatory's Voice Teacher Certification Jury.
She makes her home in Rochester, New York with the American conductor Mark Powell and is the Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice at the Eastman School of Music.