Angela was born in Belfast and studied at the Belfast School of Music, with Veronica (Ronnie) Dunne at the DIT College of Music in Dublin. She made her debut as Cherubino in ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ with the Irish National Opera and as Magdalena in ‘Rigoletto’ with the Dublin Grand Opera Society. A multiple prize-winner throughout the Festivals in Ireland culminating in the prestigious DIT John McCormack two year scholarship award to continue her studies in Munich.

 

In July 2006 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Queen’s University, Belfast for her promotion of Ireland in the Classical World of Music and her unending commitment to the young classical Musician’s throughout Ireland.From 2003-2017 Angela was Senior Tutor of Voice/stage skills and Chamber Music at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Angela was one of a panel of four to judge the inaugural RTÉ ‘All Ireland School Choir Competition’ 2009, the final of which was televised live from the Ulster Hall. In its seven years, it is one of RTÉ’s most successful programmes streamed live the last three years from Titanic Belfast.

In 2019 she was elected Chair of Munich Irish Network MIN which organizes the largest St Patrick’s Day Parade in Europe, outside of Dublin and the second-largest in Bavaria after the Oktoberfest in Munich.

She was appointed a Board Member of the German Irish Council in 2019 by the Irish Embassy in Berlin which aims to promote a ‘deeper and wider footprint between Germany and Ireland’.