Born in Covilhã, Raquel began her musical career at the age of five at the Regional Conservatory of Music in Covilhã, where she studied piano and ballet. Under the guidance of Professor António de Oliveira e Silva, she studied violin at EPABI. In 2002, she obtained her degree in Violin from ANSO, in the class of Professor Ágnes Sárosi. She received a scholarship from the Student Support Fund, from the Covilhã City Council and from the Music – Education and Culture Association.

She has completed several violin and chamber music improvement courses with Manuel Teixeira, Sergey Kravchencko, Angelique Loyer, Gerardo Ribeiro, Augustin Dumay, Boris Kuniev, Jan Dobrelevsky, Vladimir Ovcharech, James Dahlgren, Gilles Apap, Alexandre da Costa, and violin pedagogy with Bogumila Burfin, Gwendolin Masin and Joyce Tan.
Her interest in early music led her to improve her knowledge of the baroque violin, attending masterclasses with Enrico Onofri, Enrico Gatti, Richard Gwild, Francesca Viccari, Chiara Banchini and in chamber music with Vittorio Ghielmi and Alfredo Bernardini.

As a freelancer, she has performed regularly with the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra and the MPMP Ensemble. She has also participated in various artistic projects of early music – Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música, Músicos do Tejo, Divino Sospiro, Flores de Mvsica, Melleo Harmonia, Orquestra Barroca de Mateus. In this context, she has performed in several venues in Europe, Asia and Africa.

She has been teaching since 2006 as a violin teacher at the Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional. Her students have won awards in several national and international competitions, as well as been admitted to national and European higher education institutions in music. She is regularly invited to lead workshops and masterclasses. Between 2002 and 2016, she taught at the Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo and the Conservatório Metropolitano de Música de Lisboa.

She holds a Master's degree in Instrument Pedagogy from ANSO/Lusíada University of Lisbon, under the guidance of Professor Aníbal Lima. He is a founding member of the Arabesco Quartet and the Atena Ensemble.

In July 2019, she was selected to join the Juilliard Piccola Accademia, where she had the opportunity to work with Robert Mealy and Elizabeth Blumenstock and chamber music with Sandra Miller, Phoebe Carrai, Dominic Teresi and Béatrice Martin.

As a performer, she was admitted to participate in two seminars at the Cini Foundation (Italy) under the direction of Pedro Memelsdorff: one on the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara, led by Amandine Beyer (2020) and, in 2024, on Johann Adolf Hasse, led by Vivica Genaux.

In 2022, she completed her Master's Degree in Music at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, specializing in baroque violin with Professor Benjamin Chénier. As part of this master's degree, and under the supervision of Professor Pedro Couto Soares, he defended a research project entitled Historical and interpretative aspects of “Sonata à violino e Basso Sopra Lo Stile Che Suona Il Prette Dalla Chitarra Portoghese”, bA4, by Giuseppe Tartini.

He obtained an Erasmus mobility grant to undertake an internship at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, under the supervision of violinist Shunske Sato.