Educated at Chetham’s School of Music and Trinity College London, Pamela won the Raymond Russell Inter-Collegiate Harpsichord Prize and gained a French Government scholarship to study at the Schola Cantorum, Paris. She was awarded the Harkness Fellowship which took her to the University of Michigan for a Master’s degree in Early Keyboard Instruments, studying with Edward Parmentier and Penelope Crawford. Her other mentors include Heather Slade-Lipkin, Valda Aveling, Huguette Dreyfus and Josef Weingarten.

Pamela has long been associated with promoting young composers and new music for harpsichord.  She single-handedly curated and managed projects which were unprecedented within the UK, including the Manchester contemporary music HarpsichordFests – garnering a four-star review in The Guardian – and the British Harpsichord Society International Composition Competition which culminated in the CD recording Shadow Journey (Prima Facie).  She was co-producer for both Shadow Journey and Penelope Cave’s CD Panorama.  

Her bicentenary commemorations in Manchester of both Charlotte and Anne Brontë, for which she commissioned new poetry and choral works, were the only major concert events to be held for the Brontë Bicentenaries in Britain.  Her projects have attracted support from Arts Council England, National Lottery, the Holst and Hinrichsen Foundations, Women in Music, the Garrick Charitable Trust and the Ida Carroll Trust.