Veronika Reutz Drobnić is a composer and a published researcher of new music, renowned for her innovative approaches to non-traditional and visual scores and instrumental composition utilizing pre-existing, often folk-based materials. Her research explores the neurocognitive and perceptual processes involved in performing graphic and animated scores. Her music has been performed on four continents, won numerous competitions and was TV and radio portraited in Germany, Croatia, and Japan.Throughout her career, Veronika's compositions got international recognition and have been performed at prestigious festivals worldwide by ensembles and orchestras such as SWR symphony orchestra, Badische Staatskapelle, HNK Zagreb Orchestra, Pony Says Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Aslan ensemble, PART Ensemble, Ensemble Identität, IRK Ensemble, Tempus Konnex Ensemble and many others. Her ballet 'Black Puzzle ~ Still, I Rise' is in the regular repertoire of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Her PhD work is currently supported by the Cusanuswerk stipend for the best PhD projects in Germany.Her artistic vision has earned her numerous scholarships and grants, as well as prestigious prizes and competitions, including the Suntory Hall composition competition prize Japan, Ensemble Identität composition prize Korea, Salastina Composer Collective competition USA, Female Affairs Residency India/Germany, Cantus ensemble young composer prize Croatia, SWR Orchestra composition competition Germany, and the mandolin orchestra prize of The Croatian Cultural Association.She studied at the Music Academy in Zagreb for a year, after which she completed her bachelor's degree at HDMK Stuttgart. Afterward, she pursued her master's degree at HfM Karlsruhe. Veronika has also expanded her knowledge and expertise through a study semester in 2022 at the Kunitachi College of Music in Japan with Motoharu Kawashima. Currently, she is a freelance composer and a PhD candidate at the HfM Karlsruhe and ZHdK Zürich, currently on a research Erasmus semester at KMH Stockholm.She was invited to teach and present at universities and conferences such as HfM Karlsruhe, KTH Stockholm, Music Academy in Zagreb, TENOR Conference Vienna and the SPA conference in Malta.

Next Concert dates18.05.2026
'Three Thoughts on Folk Music'
for the Cantus ensemble
Dvorana Vatroslav Lisinski
Zagreb, Croatia04.06.2026
'How My Blood Falls'
for soprano and piano
Brookline Senior Center, Boston, USA10.06.2026
'Black Puzzle - Still, I Rise'
Ballet
for Orchestra
Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia12.06.2026
'Black Puzzle - Still, I Rise'
Ballet
for Orchestra
Croatian National Theatre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia13.06.2026
'Operation Marimba'
for Marimba solo
Kirchlindach, Switzerland18.06.2026
'Operation Marimba'
for Marimba solo - Nežka Prosenjak
Zürich, Switzerland19.06.2026
'Operation Marimba'
for Marimba solo
Bern, Switzerland21.06.2026
'Still Point of a Turning World'
for Jugend Gitarrenorchesters BW
Lohr am Main, Germany22.07.2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for accordion, clarinet, trojnica and sluškinja (Croatian traditional instruments)
for Duo Croatico
Ludbreg, Croatia26.07.2026
'Five Brass Grooves'
for a trumpet ensemble
Wolfgang Rihm Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany03.08.2026
'Threads, Patterns, Contrasts'
for violin and guitar
Kaštel Gomilica, mala crkva sv. Jeronima, Croatia11.08.2026
'Igre Mora i Osora'
for the Berlin Nonett
Osor Music Evenings
Osor, Croatia12.08.2026
'Igre Mora i Osora'
for the Berliner Nonett
Ljubljana, Slovenia20.08.2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for accordion, clarinet, trojnica and sluškinja (Croatian traditional instruments)
Drniš, Croatia12.09.2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for accordion, clarinet, trojnica and sluškinja (Croatian traditional instruments)
Medvedgrad, Croatia13.09.2026
'Still Point of a Turning World'
for Jugend Gitarrenorchesters BW
Speyer, Germany09.2026
in progress
for flute, viola and guitar
Basel13.10.2026
in progress
Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe, Germany28.10.2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for accordion, clarinet, trojnica and sluškinja (Croatian traditional instruments)
Warsaw, Poland04.11.2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for accordion, clarinet, trojnica and sluškinja (Croatian traditional instruments)
Ludbreg, Croatia11.2026
'AUFPRALL'
for the NAE collective
Zagreb
Croatia12.12.2026
'Quartet for the Beginning of Times'
for ensemble and Eva Mach
Zagreb, Croatia2026
'Zagorske Igre'
for Mandolinski orkestar HGGD Sloga (Mandolin Orchestra)
Croatia17.01.2027
in progress
for Cantus ensemnle
Zagreb, Croatia2027
in progress
for tamburica quartet
Zagreb, Croatia

Videos

I Walk The Past Another Way—Graphic score section

A Duet of Intelligences

Variations On Three Personal Themes

Fluidity

Silver Bells