From Dublin, Lauren is a graduate of the Master of Music in Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music & Trinity College Dublin, where she trained with Dr Imelda Drumm, and répétiteurs Dr Andrew Synott and Dr Dearbhla Collins. She has worked with many distinguished artists including the late Veronica Dunne, Ann Murray DBE, Iain Burnside, Sir Thomas Allen, and the late Kathryn Harries OBE. She now studies in London with Scottish soprano and voice teacher Linda Esther Gray. 

​Lauren has won prizes for various competitions in her native Ireland including Sligo Feis Ceoil and Newpark Music Festivals. She has been a finalist in the Hazelwood House Vocal Bursary, was awarded the Liz Pink Memorial Prize at the Irené Sanford Competition, and was a finalist in Northern Ireland Opera’s Glenarm Festival of Voice. In 2019 and 2021 respectively, Lauren advanced to the final rounds of the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Austria and the Premio Fausto Ricci Competition in Rome. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Irish Arts Council's prestigious Agility Award. In the past year, Lauren was awarded fourth prize in the London Classical Music Competition and was a finalist in the 2022 Bernadette Greevy Competition. This year, she was announced as one of Help Musician's Supported Artists in the UK, who awarded her with a career development grant. 

In concert she has performed in the summer recital series for Northern Ireland Opera, the Summer Festival of Opera for the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, the Newry Chamber Music Festival, and as soprano soloist in Bach’s St John Passion and Fauré’s Requiem. Lauren also recently featured as a guest artist in Dublin's Bord Gáis Theatre, in concert with renowned Irish soprano Celine Byrne under conductor David Brophy. Past performances also include Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea for Opera at Castalia and Bizet’s Carmen for Lyric Opera. In 2015 she performed a small role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the Abbey Theatre, and in 2017, played the role of Hermia in RIAM’s production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

Lauren was a member of the Northern Ireland Opera Studio for the 2017-18 season, where she made her role debut as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte. In the same year she also made her role debut as Edith, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance for Lyric Opera, and joined the chorus of Irish National Opera for Verdi’s Aida at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. She subsequently featured in their Young Artist Showcase with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. She has gone on to perform frequently with INO in recordings and productions such as Puccini's La Bohème, Strauss' Elektra & Bizet's Carmen. Last summer, Lauren joined the prestigious Opernfest Prague as a young artist, where she made her debut at the Vinohrady Theatre under the baton of Czech conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink.