Shuna studied with Jane Irwin at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at RSAMD. Concert engagements have included Verdi’s Requiem, Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915, Berlioz’s Nuits D'ete and Mozart's C minor Mass, as well as the roles of Electra in Mozart's Idomeneo, La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Concepcion in Ravel's L’Heure Espagnole and Mrs Green in Birtwistle's Down by the Greenwood Side.

She has won several major vocal awards including the Governor’s recital prize, the Margaret Dick Award, the Bill Dewar Award and the Debussy prize. More recently she won first prize in the Great Elm Vocal Awards and a Bayreuth scholarship from the Scottish Wagner society. An accomplished recitalist, Shuna has also given concerts with the RSNO, Opera on a Shoestring and Tayside Opera and regularly performs for the musical charity Council for Music in Hospitals.

Recently Shuna made her Scottish Opera debut in several performances of The Minotaur by Julian Evans and in September 2004 she will be appearing in The Cunning Little Vixen for British Youth Opera with the assistance of The Scottish Arts Council Lottery Funding. In 2005 Shuna will be participating in the Samling Foundation's masterclass programme. Other performances include the role of Micaela in Carmen at Haddo House and tours with Opera on a Shoestring.