Pippa started learning the piano by the Suzuki approach at the age of three, and at the age of ten performed Mozart's Triple Piano Concerto with her two brothers and the Cambridge Youth Orchestra at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. She started Suzuki cello when she was six and began traditional double bass lessons when she was ten, going on to achieve distinctions for grade eight on all three instruments at the ages of twelve and thirteen. When Pippa was fifteen she passed the DipABRSM performing diploma on the double bass, and two years later she passed the LRSM diploma.

Pippa has toured three times with the European Union Youth Orchestra, once as prinicpal double bass, and has performed with the orchestra all over Europe and in Kazakhstan. Pippa joined the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2002, and after two years in the orchestra became principal double bass, a position she held for another two and a half years. Living in Cambridge, Pippa had the opportunity to get involved with a lot of the music making at the University. Whilst still at school she was principal double bass with the Cambridge University Musical Society's First Orchestra, and also played with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra, amongst other university-based ensembles. Pippa has also played with various amateur orchestras around Cambridge, including the Sinfonia of Cambridge and Cambridge Philharmonic Society.

Pippa is studying for her undergraduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her prinicipal study instrument is the Baroque Double Bass (learning with Chi-chi Nwanoku), and she also has lessons on modern double bass (with Duncan McTier and Graham Mitchell). During her first two years she was a second study cellist, and she has also had lessons on the viol and violone. At the Academy Pippa has performed with the Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Period Instrument Baroque Orchestra and the Becket Ensemble, as well as playing for two of the operas. She has worked with musicians such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Laurence Cummings, Trevor Pinnock and Rachel Podger. She is also the double bass player for the Academy's Bach Cantata series.

Pippa was a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's Ann and Peter Law Scheme in 2009. As part of this she received coaching from the orchestra's players and had the opportunity to rehearse and perform with the orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Festival Hall. Subsequently she has worked with the OAE at Glyndebourne, playing in performances of Don Giovanni. Pippa has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Lufthansa Baroque Festival with the European Union Baroque Orchestra, and played in the Baroque Orchestra at Dartington International Summer School. She has also performed with English National Opera, and is principal double bass with the Orchestra of St Paul's, Covent Garden.

Pippa also teaches in Cambridge and London; for more information see Teaching.