Kathryn is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, with Bachelor degrees in Commerce and Arts. She is currently completing a post-graduate course in Opera performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, and studying singing under Joseph Talia. 

An accomplished pianist and a lover of languages, she speaks Italian, French and German, and has lived and worked in Europe pursuing these interests.  She continued her singing studies under Janice Chapman in London, joining the Victoria State Opera on her return in 1995, and performing in Tosca, Eugene Onegin and La Traviata, as well as the Melbourne Festival performances of Die Frau Ohne Schatten, and Glagolitic Mass.

Her roles include Arsamene (understudy) in Xerxes for the Victoria State Opera, Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte for Renaissance Opera, Sally in A Hand of Bridge and Lorna in the premier of Paternity for the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, as well as excerpts as Narrator in The Rape of Lucretia, Virtue in L'Incoronazione di Poppea and the title role of Xerxes at the Victorian College of the Arts.