Belgian violinist Henry Raudales was born in Guatemala.  His father Enrique Raudales started Henry on the violin at the age of four and he played his first concert at the age of seven with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.  A few years later, he received lessons from Erick Friedman.  In that same period, Yehudi Menuhin invited him to study in London.  When Henry was 14 he played for the panamerican union receiving an award for the best young violinist of the year.

Henry also studied conducting with his father, and finished his studies at the Conservatory of Guatemala.  When Henry was 16, he became a member of the Royal Flemish Opera of Antwerp and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, obtaining first prize and higher diplomas with the highest distinction.  That same year he studied with Henryk Szeryng and Mrs Kogan.  Some years later he studied conducting and general musicianship at the Guildhal School of Music and Drama.

In 1984 Henry was a member of the Brussels Radio Orchestra.  One year later he won the radio competition in Brussels, the concertmaster position at the Royal Flemish Opera and the 2nd prize ex aequo at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.  Since then, he has been playing innumerable concerts and recitals throughout the world.

Henry Raudales was concertmaster of the chamber orchestra I Fiamminghi which he conducted on many occasions.  He was the founder and conductor of the chamber orchestra Celestial Consort (1995-1999).  In 1993 he obtained the position of concertmaster of the Essener Philharmoniker, and in 2001 at the Munich Radio Orchestra, where he gets to conduct 2 productions a year.  Henry has conducted and played with orchestras at festivals around the world and has made recordings as a conductor, a chamber music player and a soloist. In 2006 he founded the chamber orchestra Camerata Enkabara.  Since 2007 he is professor at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.