
Born in Bucharest into a family of musicians, Răzvan Popovici studied in Salzburg, Paris, and Freiburg. As a soloist, he has performed in prominent venues such as the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Prinzregententheater in Munich, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. He has appeared alongside the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Kobe and Munich Chamber Orchestras, the Romanian Radio National Orchestra and the „George Enescu” Philharmonic in Bucharest, the philharmonics of Sibiu, Timișoara, Cluj, Iași, and Brașov, as well as the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, under the direction of conductors like Roberto Abbado, Christian Badea, Shlomo Mintz, or John Axelrod. He has collaborated with Juliane Banse, Shlomo Mintz, Konstantin Lifschitz, Natalia Gutman, Nobuko Imai, Elena Bashkirova, Radovan Vlatkovic, Daishin Kashimoto, Olli Mustonen, Gilles Apap, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Louis Lortie, Roland Pöntinen, Patrick Gallois, Enrico Pace, Sergei Nakariakov, and Giovanni Sollima. Furthermore, he is a regular guest at festivals worldwide, such as the Lucerne Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Enescu Festival, Intonations Festival Berlin, or the festivals in Kuhmo, Spoleto, Stavanger, Delft, or Jerusalem.
Among the halls where he has performed are Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, South Bank and Wigmore Hall in London, the YMCA in Jerusalem, Bozar in Brussels, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, or the Philharmonie de Paris. Răzvan regularly performs worldwide as a member of the Raro Ensemble. With nine internationally acclaimed records released so far, the ensemble’s latest CD, Impressions d’enfance – Music by George Enescu, was launched in Brussels in April 2022.
A beneficial experience for his career was his participation as an instrumentalist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 2000 to 2001.
Răzvan is the initiator and executive director of the Chiemgauer Musikfrühling Festival in Traunstein, Germany, and the SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival in Bucharest, which he has transformed into a highly successful European cultural platform and which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Răzvan regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Japan, and South America, as well as within the SoNoRo Interferențe educational project or the Villa Musica Foundation in Schloss Engers/Mainz. Since 2023, he has been a viola professor at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium.