Paula has an Honours Degree in Music from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Opera from the Victorian College of the Arts.

She will soon compete as a semi-finalist in the 2007 German-Australian Opera Grant.

Her engagements as a soloist have included performances with the Southern Cross Soloists and Astra Choir.

She recently made her Melbourne City Opera solo debut in the 2007 production The Pavarotti Story and in 2008 will perform the role of Stella for MCO in Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire.