Raul Campos

Raul Campos, born in 2002 in Barcelona, began studying violin and piano at the age of four using the Suzuki method. At ten, he entered the municipal conservatory of his hometown and, at sixteen, was admitted to the IEA Oriol Martorell. Since 2020, he has been studying violin with Professor Rudens Turku at the Stella Privat Hochschule in Feldkirch, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in June 2025.

He has participated in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Andreas Röhn, Yair Kless, Tanja Becker-Bender, Sophie Heinrich, Sebastian Schmidt, Maria Milstein, Michael Foyle, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Eszter Haffner, and others.

In 2024, he was an academy member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has served as concertmaster of the JOSB (Barcelona Youth Symphony Orchestra), the JONC (National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia), the Pforte Kammerorchester PLUS, the Stella Vorarlberg University Symphony Orchestra, and the Ensemble PulsArt. He is also a regular guest collaborator with the Granollers Chamber Orchestra and the Musique des Lumières orchestra.

His passion for chamber music has profoundly shaped his artistic path. Since late 2024, he has been a member of the Quartet Atenea and performs at festivals such as the Barcelona String Quartet Biennial, Ibercamera Girona, Kammermusik Basel at the Stadtcasino, and the Auditori de Tenerife. In September 2025, he began a master’s degree in chamber music with Rainer Schmidt, Anna Gebert, and Anton Kernjak at the Musik Akademie Basel. He has recently participated in the Bad Tölz 2026 String Quartet Competition and has been selected for the ARD Competition in Munich, which will take place in September of this year.

Raul has collaborated with Jonathan Aner, Tatiana Chernichka, Maria Włoszczowska, Katya Apekisheva, Marina Grauman, Klaus Christa, Gerhard Vielhaber, Lena Eckels, Mathias Johansen, Moritz Huemer, Martina Schucan, and Simone Zgraggen. He was also selected to take part in the Musics en Résidence festival during the summer of 2025.

As a member of the former Metanoia Quartett, he participated in the world premiere of the opera Lili Elbe at Theater St. Gallen and debuted at festivals such as Società dei Concerti di Bolzano and Pforte. In April 2024, the quartet won the Stella Chamber Music Prize. With his piano trio Mel Bonis, he is also deeply engaged in chamber music and has performed in venues such as the Markus-Sittikus Hall, home of the Schubertiade Hohenems.

In 2022, he won the Stella Soloist Music Prize and repeated his Galimusic Audience Prize, previously awarded in 2021. That same year, he won first prize at the ArsKosova Music Competition, as well as several second prizes at the Zamora Chamber Music Competition. In 2019, he performed as a soloist with a local orchestra and received an honorable mention at the 4th Barcelona Violin Competition.

His most notable solo performances include concerts with the Liechtenstein-Werdenberg Orchestra in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as with the Arts Simfònica Jove in Barcelona. He also gave a live recital for ORF (Austrian public broadcasting) and was a scholarship recipient of the Friends of Rudens Turku Foundation during the 2023/24 season, giving a series of concerts in Munich.