[1] De Raaff has written five Symphonies, eleven Concertos for solo instruments and orchestra,[2][3][4] an Oratorio entitled Atlantis,[5] two main stage Operas.

Currently De Raaff is composing a Cantata for mixed Choir and Orchestra on a poem entitled L'Azur by Stéphane Mallarmé commissioned by the Lucerne Festival of 2025 and co-commissioned by the NTR-Zaterdagmatinee.

Amongst others Jonathan Harvey, Steve Reich, Magnus Lindberg, Toshio Hosokawa, Luca Francesconi, Thierry de Mey, and George Aperghis.

[16] In 1999, after finishing his studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, De Raaff become a private student of George Benjamin at the Royal College of Music in London.

Six years later The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned De Raaff to compose an orchestral work that would be premiered in the famous Koussevitzky Shed at Tanglewood in 2007.

Since 2001 Robin de Raaff has been teaching Composition and Instrumentation at Codarts, University for the Arts in Rotterdam,[17] education a wide array of composers.

In 2012 De Raaff changed publisher from Donemus, who represented his work exclusively since 1993, to Deuss Music[18] where his entire oeuvre is presently managed.

The copyrights to his oeuvre have been transferred to Buma/Stemra for International exploitation of the performing, broadcasting, and recording rights Since 2013 De Raaff composes in his own Studio[19] in Betondorp of Amsterdam.