Carol has been the guest performer with a number of leading orchestras in the world, including the BBC Concert Orchestra and, more recently, a concert with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra when she performed the inaugural recitals on a newly-installed Austin organ in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall. Carol has been interviewed "live" on many radio programs, in which she has highlighted her profound love of the King of Instruments.

Carol spent five years at the Royal Academy of Music where she obtained the Academy's prestigious Recital Diploma together with an LRAM (organ) and an LRAM (piano). She has also studied in Paris and undertook postgraduate study at Yale University under the direction of Professor Thomas Murray. She undertook Doctoral study under Professor McNeil Robinson at the Manhattan School of Music where she received the Helen Cohn award for her D.M.A. degree.