Geraldine McGreevy began a fast-developing career as a soprano when she won the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award in 1996.\r She is a music graduate of the University of Birmingham. She taught in Martel, France for two years, then returned to England to continue postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She earned the Royal Academy of Music Diploma (DipRAM), which is given only to students of high honors, and also won the Academy's Shinn Fellowship in 1996.\r