He studied the piano with Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne University of Music).
As a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes he completed his musical education at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva.
Subsequent concert tours have taken him to the Near and Far East including South-Korea and Taiwan and to the principal countries of Europe.
From 1986 until his death in 1993 he has been responsible for the piano Master Class at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.
Raymund Havenith was married since 1980 to the Korean-German pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith, appearing together as a piano duo on stage.