I grew up on a farm in Dorset which was beautiful, although, of course, I didn’t appreciate it at the time.   After finishing a music degree at Manchester University I spent a year there writing music for all the drama department’s plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream,  and Büchner’s Woyzeck.  Whilst there I wrote the score for an Open University TV programme  about melodrama.  The following year I took a post-graduate diploma in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

After a few years as a freelance singer I joined the BBC Singers as an Alto and spent over 10 happy years with them. In 2006 I left the Singers and moved up to County Durham and began life as a freelancer again. I worked initially a great deal with The Gabrieli Consort and The Sixteen. In 2012 I joined The Sixteen for their wonderful tour to Australia and New Zealand and have been a member of the group ever since then.