Katie Bray is a Karaviotis scholar on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music, taught by Elizabeth Ritchie and Iain Ledingham, and was awarded First Prize in the Academy's prestigious Richard Lewis Singing Competition last year. She recently played the role of Béatrice in Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict at the Royal Academy of Music, conducted by Sir Colin Davis and directed by John Copley. This summer, Katie makes her début with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and English Touring Opera.

During her time as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, Katie was awarded the 2009 Major van Someren-Godfrey Prize for English Song, the 2010 Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, the Alfred Alexander Scholarship and the Karaviotis and Sir Thomas Armstrong Awards. She was also the recipient of the Opera Prize and third prize overall in the 2011 Mozart International Singing Competition, the Audience Prize in the 2010 Handel Singing Competition and third prize in the 2010 Jackdaws Vocal Award.

Other recent solo appearances include Cherubino in British Youth Opera's Le nozze di Figaro at the Peacock Theatre, Wu in the world première of Peter Maxwell-Davies' opera, Kommilitonen! and song recitals in the Wigmore Hall with the Countess of Munster Young Artists and the Royal Academy's Song Circle. Katie is grateful for generous support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is represented by Rayfield Allied.