Raoul Gehringer received his first piano lessons at the age of six and was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir from the age of ten to fourteen. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory (piano and clarinet), at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (choral conducting with Johannes Prinz, composition with Heinz Kratochwil) and at the University of Vienna (mathematics and history). Gehringer was a singer, assistant and accompanist in various choirs (Concentus Vocalis, Vienna Concert Choir, Vienna Chamber Choir, Chorus Viennensis) as well as a teacher of music education and aural training with the Vienna Boys' Choir.
As artistic director of the Chorus Viennensis, Raoul Gehringer paid particular attention to 20th-century male choir literature, while also further developing the choir's other strengths (such as motets and works by Schubert). Gehringer conducted the Chorus Viennensis in the final of the EBU competition ‘Let the Peoples Sing’ in 1997.
