Abigail Kelly completed her Post Graduate Diploma course in operatic studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow under the tuition of Helen Lawson. In 2006 she completed her undergraduate studies at Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class honours degree studying under Maureen Brathwaite with further tuition from Stuart Smith and Jane Robinson. She was awarded a course scholarship, the Robert Gahan prize for achievement by a first-year singer and the BMus prize. She has  also won the Leamington Spa Festival's  Rae Woodland opera competition. Abigail is grateful to the Peter Moores Foundation which gave her additional financial assistance to further her operatic training.