Răzvan Popovici was born in Bucharest into a family of musicians and began studying the violin with his father, Mugur Popovici. He studied in Salzburg, Paris and Freiburg with Peter Langgartner, Jean Sulem, Christoph Wyneken and Wolfram Christ. 

He has played as soloist in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Theatre-des-Champs-Elysée in Paris with the Chamber Orchestras of Cologne and Kobe, the National Radio Orchestra and the “George Enescu” Philharmonic in Bucharest, the Philharmonics of Brașov, Timișoara, Cluj, Iași and Sibiu conducted by Christian Badea, Shlomo Mintz, John Axelrod, Valentin Uryupin. 

He has collaborated with Juliane Banse, Shlomo Mintz, Konstantin Lifschitz, Nobuko Imai, Elena Bashkirova, Radovan Vlatkovic, Daishin Kashimoto, Olli Mustonen, Gilles Apap, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin, Louis Lortie, Patrick Gallois, Sergej Nakriakov and Giovanni Sollima. 

He is a regular guest at festivals around the world, such as the Lucerne Festival, Wiener Festwochen, George Enescu Festival, Kuhmo Festival, Stavanger Festival and Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival.  Among the halls where he has performed are Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall in London or Philharmonie de Paris.

Răzvan performs regularly around the world as a member of the Raro Ensemble. The ensemble has so far released 9 acclaimed records worldwide. 

Răzvan is the initiator and executive director of both the Chiemgauer Musikfruhling Festival in Traunstein, Germany, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, and of the SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest, which he transformed into a highly successful European cultural platform. 

Răzvan regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Japan and South America, as well as in the framework of the SoNoRo Interferences educational project and the “Villa Musica” Foundation.

In 2023 he became professor of viola at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium.