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Kelly is an Australian conductor currently based in London.

She has recently begun a residency with the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, having conducted ensembles across Canada, the US, Europe and Australia including the Filharmonie Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), the Winnipeg Wind Orchestra (Canada) and I Maestri (London). 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 of 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 numerous other specialized and cross-disciplinary initiatives.

Kelly completed a Masters degree in conducting at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 2004 and has since been freelancing as an initiator and director of innovative presentations of chamber music. In 2005, she 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 the Adelaide, Montreal and Brighton 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 cookery to respond to the playing of professional and semi-professional orchestral musicians.

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.

As well as continuing to build her profile in the mainstream orchestral repertoire, Kelly is currently pursuing the development of a chamber orchestra for Australian musicians in London in conjunction with The Tait Memorial Trust.