 The same year she won 1st prize in the Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition.After further training with Jacqueline Richard in Düsseldorf from 1980 to 1981, and with Gérard Souzay, in 1982 she settled in London, England and completed her studies with Vera Rozsa, and Sir Peter Pears.In 1990, she won Canada's Virginia Parker Prize.