Born in Malmedy, her musical training began in her village of Bellevaux-Ligneuville [fr], where she learned the clarinet at the local academy and was a member of the church choir.

[1] Winner of the Fondation belge de la vocation [fr] in 1997, she continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Noelle Barker.

She was soon noticed by three important institutions in Belgium: the Stavelot festival, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège and La Monnaie.

Stavelot invited her almost every year between 1997 and 2005, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège she sang the first soprano part in Mozart's Great Mass in C minor alongside Louis Langrée, also in Britten's Les Illuminations with Armin Jordan and the cycle Les Nuits d'été by Berlioz with Stéphane Denève.

[6] At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, she appeared as Tamiri in Mozart's Il re pastore, and in Berlin, she was Serpetta in his La finta giardiniera.