About Caroline

Caroline studied music at Nottingham University, and music analysis at Goldsmith’s College, London.  She joined the BBC and worked briefly for Radio 3 before getting side-tracked by speech radio. For the next two decades she worked as an independent feature maker for Radio 4 and World Service, travelling widely and specialising in stories about the developing world.

By the time she reached her 40s, motherhood was making the globe-trotting unsustainable, and Caroline was missing her music. She re-trained as a music therapist and practiced for six years, specialising in working with adopted children and families, and clients with acquired brain injury. Originally a French horn player, she became increasingly obsessed with the piano. In 2015 she completed the Piano Teachers’ Course at the Purcell School and has since established a successful teaching practice specialising in working with adults.

Caroline studies piano with Claudia Schurr and has also learnt from Heli Ignatius-Fleet and Graham Fitch. She is co-founder of the Appassionata piano group, and attends courses and workshops at Finchcocks, and Chethams International Summer School.

Caroline holds the LTCL diploma in piano performance and the Cert PTC in piano pedagogy. She also has a BA (Hons) in Music, an M Mus in Music Analysis and an MA in Music Therapy. She is a full member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and of the European Piano Teaching Association (EPTA).

All her life, Caroline has been writing stories, but it was only when she returned to serious music-making that she found a subject about which she was truly passionate. She has written two music-themed novels; the first, Solo, will be published by The Book Guild in September 2025.

In 2021 she moved from Cambridgeshire to Greenwich, south-east London.