Rachael's interest in music started at a young age whilst living in Gibraltar, beginning with the Violin and then the Clarinet. On returning to the UK she began to play the piano at the age of eleven with Mrs Angela Ross. She then went on to study with Mrs Creaser in Oxford. At the same time she began singing lessons with Rodney Bennet and joined the Oxford Girls Choir which was run by the Oxford Music Faculty of Oxford University, and conducted by Richatrd Vendome. While with the choir, they toured France and sang in Notre Dame Cathedral and Chartres. She then went on to sing with the Oxforshire Youth Chamber Choir before studying music for 3 years at Colchester Institute.

Whilst studying for her music degree, she also achieved Grade 8 singing and studied for, and passed her A.L.C.M. Diploma at the London College of music in 1993.

Since then, as well as teaching piano, and being a full time mother to two young boys, she has played for The Guilsfield Singers, and still plays for Buttington and District Amateur Operatic Society, Kelsborrow Choir and Whitchurch Operatic Society.