Katie Bray

Katie Bray, the British mezzo-soprano who won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, is known for her captivating stage presence and radiant, expressive voice. Her recital appearances include prestigious venues like Wigmore Hall and the Holywell Music Room. She is a frequent performer at the London English Song Festival, including concerts at Wilton's Music Hall, and at the Oxford International Song Festival, where she recorded a Schumann disc with Sholto Kynoch. Notable recent projects include a semi-staged production of Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch with Christopher Glynn and Roderick Williams at Milton Court Concert Hall and the Ryedale Festival, plus the debut of the new monodrama Frida with the East London Music Group. Katie Bray also appeared in a staged cabaret of ‘Songs Banned by the Nazis', Effigies of Wickedness, at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Especially acclaimed for her Baroque repertoire, she has sung with Barokksolistene and Bjarte Eike, the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Irish Baroque Orchestra with Peter Whelan, La Nuova Musica, Ludus Baroque, the London Handel Orchestra under Laurence Cummings, the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, and Spira Mirabilis. She has performed with Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Irish National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Opera Holland Park, and Garsington Opera. In the 2025/26 season, she will sing Rosmira in Handel's Partenope at English National Opera.