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Kelly is a freelancing orchestral conductor and independent producer currently based in London.

Kelly has conducted ensembles across Canada, America, Europe and Australia including I Maestri (London), the Filharmonie Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic) and the Winnipeg Wind Orchestra (Canada). She has initiated collaboration with professional musicians from the Winnipeg, Ottawa, Adelaide, Melbourne and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Kore (Montréal), and artists affiliated with the Australian Opera Studio, Australian Ballet, Young Lungs Dance Exchange (Winnipeg), Cirque Éloize (Montreal), Leigh Warren & Dancers and Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts (Adelaide), Pomp Duck and Circumstance (Berlin), Queen of Puddings Theatre (Toronto) and other specialized and cross-disciplinary initiatives.

Kelly has recently been appointed Associate Conductor of the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, while also continuing her affiliation with the I Maestri initiative at St John's Smith Square. Recent and future projects include engagements with orchestras in London, Manchester, Leeds, and Brighton, sound design for The Winged Cranes physical theatre and puppetry piece The Soldier With No Name at the Blue Elephant Theatre, and the development of a chamber orchestra for Australian musicians in London in conjunction with The Tait Memorial Trust.

As an arts administrator and advocate, Kelly has achieved a high level of success in marketing for L'orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Les grands ballets canadiens de Montréal, and currently represents a number of high profile London arts organizations in varying capacities. She has served as leader and principal flautist of the Australian Youth Wind Orchestra (1998) and the National Children's Wind Orchestra (1997), and has been the recipient of various awards and accolades across the spectrum of her diverse artistic and musical activity. Kelly completed a Masters degree in conducting at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg) in 2004 and has since been actively freelancing as an initiator and director in the conceptualization of innovative presentations of chamber music, as well as continuing to build her profile in the mainstream orchestral repertoire.

In 2005, Kelly established her own company, Pazzia Contemporary Performing Collective, as a means of bringing live classical music together with a philosophy of time-based performance art. Pazzia has enjoyed success at Adelaide and Montreal Fringe Festivals, repeat appearances at Pop Montreal International Music Festival, and independent shows in conjunction with popular fringe organizations Artrage (Perth) and Ace Art Inc (Winnipeg). Pazzia has engaged expressive disciplines from interpretative dance and puppetry to contortion, stiltwalking, visual arts and onstage cooking to respond to the playing of professional and semi-professional orchestral musicians. In May 2009, Pazzia will make their UK debut at Brighton Fringe Festival with a new production entitled I’M NOT YOUR BEARDED LAPDOG featuring Latana Phoung (mezzo-soprano) and Ginny Yang (designer).