Raquel Massadas studied in Lisbon, at the Academia Superior de Orquestra, in Chicago, at Northwestern University, and in London, at the Royal College of Music.

In her professional activity as a violinist, she went through groups such as the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquestra Gulbenkian, and then began her early music studies with Richard Gwilt and Enrico Onofri, and continued her training with Elizabeth Wallfisch and Katherine McGillivray at the Royal Academy of Music, in London.

Raquel was a member of the Baroque Orchestra of the European Union, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen. She has made several recordings for Sony, CPO, Harmonia Mundi, Enja Records, Signum Classics, Berlin Classics and Naxos, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Freiburger Barockorchester, Deutsche Hofmusik, L’Arpeggiata, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Dunedin Consort, Vox Luminis, among others.

She regularly plays with the Freiburger Barockorchester and Les Musiciens du Prince, occupying the position of first viola in the B’Rock and Vox Luminis orchestras.

She is a member of the Dresdner Festspielorchester, Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Ensemble Bonne Corde and Barocksolisten München. She collaborates with the Schuppanzigh Quartet, having recently recorded with this group the quintets of Ferdinand Ries.