Carolyn studied at RCS, was Associate Artist at WNO and spent two years on a solo contract at Luzerner Theater Switzerland.
Current and Future roles include Wexford Festival Opera Lene/La ciociara and Marquise de Berkenfield/La fille du régiment broadcast live on opera vision and RTE; Cornelia/Giulio Cesare (ETO); Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Ulster Orchestra and Jac Van Steen; Mistress Quickly/Falstaff, Sorceress/ Dido with Christian Curnyn and the Berlin Baroque Akademy Musik in Germany; Madam Larina/Eugene Onegin (NI Opera); and Mary/Der fliegende Hollander with Sir Bryn Terfel, and again for Irish National Opera in 2025; and two more CDs with Delphian Records, one with Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside, and the other all female composers, both to be released this year.
Other past appearances and recordings include RTVE Madrid, BBC Radio 3 recitals, BBCNI, Ulster Radio, Swiss Radio and two opera CDs with Retrospect Opera – Ethel Smyth and R Loder.
Carolyn has performed at ROH Linbury, ENO, Stadtoper Bern, Grange Park Opera, WNO, Dorset Opera, INO, Niopera, OHP and MWO.