Carole joined The Dance School of Scotland in 2024 and teaches singing on the Musical Theatre Course. 

 Born in Scotland, Carole studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she won numerous major prizes including the Governors’ Recital Prize. She has worked extensively both on the concert platform as well as on the operatic stage. 

Carole began her career working with the chorus of La Scala, Milan and then spent time with both Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Whilst working there she understudied the role of ‘Zena’ in Katya Kabanova and was soloist in The Royal Gala Performance in extracts from Mozart’s Idomeneo. Since then she has sung the role of ‘Hermia’ with Broomhill Opera and Dido and Aeneas with the London Festival Orchestra, UK and Greece. She has also performed the role of ‘Hansel’ in Hansel and Gretel at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, ‘Meg Page‘ in Falstaff at Holland Park and ‘Frasquita’ in Carmen at Richmond Theatre. 

Carole is an accomplished performer in contemporary music and sung the role of ‘Madame Popova’ in Walton’s The Bear with Jigsaw Music Theatre. She has created roles in several productions for the Scottish composer Alasdair Nicolson including the ‘Narrator’ in The Ballad of Bulbous Sniff at the Purcell Room, ‘Catalyst’ in Lanark at the Edinburgh Festival, ‘Maria’ and ‘The Clown’ in Cat Man’s Tale which toured the UK, the leading role in his opera Ice at the People’s Palace in London, and the ‘Mother’ in Opera Circus’ production, Arcane. 

On the concert platform she has performed as a recitalist, in cabaret and in oratorio including Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Opera Gala performances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and soprano soloist with the LSO in Nicolson’s Four Tales of Enchantment.  

Carole has broadcast on both radio and television and recorded a solo recital for BBC Radio Scotland.