Graduating from the Royal College of Music, Soraya Mafi won 2nd Prize at the 2015 Kathleen Ferrier Awards is recipient of the Susan Chilcott Award (2016)

Highlights in 2016/17 include Mabel The Pirates of Penzance for the English National Opera, Suor Genoveva Suor Angelica for Opera North, and concert appearances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Peter Dijsktra), Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Chrisophe Spinosi) and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Ludovic Morlot).

Elsewhere she has sung Aminta Il re pastore at the Chatelet Theatre Paris, Johanna Sweeney Todd for Welsh National Opera, Constance Dialogues des Carmélites and First Niece Peter Grimes for Grange Park Opera, and Despina Così fan tutte for West Green House Opera.