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 this 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. In 2012, Katie makes her debut 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, Polly Peachum in Royal Academy Opera's production of Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper, and Wu in the world première of Peter Maxwell-Davies' opera, Kommilitonen! She also performed at the Wigmore Hall for the Countess of Munster Young Artists Platform in November, and will be returning to the Wigmore stage in January for a Schubert recital. Katie is grateful for generous support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Josephine Baker Trust. She is represented by Rayfield Allied.