The Portuguese soprano Raquel Camarinha was born in Braga in 1986. She began her vocal studies in 2000, completed the Secondary Singing Course in 2004, and in 2009 the Undergraduate Course in Music, at the University of Aveiro. In 2011 she took her master’s degree at the Paris Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et Danse, in the class of Chantal Mathias. Winner of several national and international awards, in 2011 she won first prize at the Luísa Todi National Singing Competition in Portugal, as well as the Best Female Performer Award at the Armel Opera Competition in Hungary. With pianist Satoshi Kubo, she won the Prix Duo at the VI Concours International de Chant-Piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. Her repertoire embraces works from the baroque to the contemporary. In opera she has sung Eurilla in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino at Théâtre du Châtelet, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Eurydice (Orphée aux Enfers), and Polly (Die Dreigroschenoper), among other rôles. She has appeared as a soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten and Die Schöpfung, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ and Pärt’s Stabat Mater. Raquel Camarinha has appeared in concert halls throughout Europe. She has also a great interest in new repertoire and has collaborated in several premières, among which two operas by Luís Tinoco, Evil Machines (2008) and Paint Me (2010).