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 is 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.

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veronika.reutz(at)gmail.com