Born in 1993, Raúl da Costa is a regular guest soloist in the most prestigious halls in Portugal and in various halls Festivals throughout Europe, including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Gulbenkian Foundation, Essen Philharmonie, Liszt Academy in Budapest, among many others. He made his orchestral debut at the age of 12 in Casa da Música, Porto, and has since performed as soloist with numerous orchestras.
Chamber music has also represented a main point in Raúl’s career, specially the collaborations with Anja Lechner, Daniel Hope, Sergei Nakariakov, Bruno Monsaingeon and Albrecht Mayer. Raúl is a scholar of the renowned Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation, and of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
He has made live recordings for both Portuguese and foreign radio and televisions, such as for ARTE, Deutsche Grammophon, the Deutschlandradio, NDR, SWR radios in Germany or Radio France. His live recording of Rachmaninoff’s 4th Piano Concerto with Porto Symphony Orchestra and Stefan Blunier was released on CD.
Raúl profited of the work with distinguished artists such as Maria João Pires, Daniel Barenboim, Ferenc Rados, Dmitri Bashkirov, amongst others. Raul studied in the Hochschule für Musik, Medien und Drama in Hannover, where he was part of the class of the renowned Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Prof. Bernd Goetzke, and was also a part of the teaching faculty. He finished his post-graduate studies with Prof. Kirill Gerstein in the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.
Raúl was appointed in 2018 Artistic Director of the Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival.