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Based in Frankfurt am Main, Veronika Paleeva is working with ensembles spread across Germany: besides being a permanent member of chamber orchestra ensemble reflektor, she has been a guest with Ensemble Modern, Hr-Sinfonieorchester, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Broken Frames Syndicate and Fabrik Quartet.

In 2020/2021 Veronika was a recipient of a scholarship and academist of Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie .


In her latest personal work, she started to musically collaborate with producer and sounddesigner
Ivy in 2021. Since then they’ve created a number of experimental pieces and sets for violin solo and tape / live electronics, which combined the genres of experimental electronic, hybrid club and generative music.

The duo has had the opportunity to perform at Jazz Montez Holidays Deluxe Festival, Naxos Hallenkonzerte, eos air, Silent Green, BHV 40’ and Museumsuferfest Frankfurt.

Education

Veronika Paleeva began learning the violin at an early age, first with her mother and then in the preparatory class at the Stuttgart Music School, which gave her the first opportunity to perform as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of five. In the following years she was the first prize winner of numerous national and international competitions such as "Jugend musiziert", Tonkünstlerverband-Competition, Jaroslav Kocian Competition (CZ), International Violin Competition Brentonico (IT) and the Karl-Adler-Competition. Her studies led her to master classes with artists such as Hans Kalafusz, Ariadne Daskalakis, Pierre Amoyal, Nachum Erlich, Herwig Zack, Stephen Shipps and the Quarteto Latinoamericano.

As a pre-student, she first studied with Prof. Judith Ingolfsson at the HMDK Stuttgart and then became a guest student at the HfM Würzburg with Prof. Herwig Zack, with whom she also completed her bachelor's degree. During this time she studied Baroque violin as a minor subject with Prof. Pauline Nobes. For her Masters, she went to Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis at the HfMT Cologne, through which she was able to deepen her interest in Baroque, Classical and contemporary Music.

Most recently, she was an academist at International Ensemble Modern Academy (20/21) and studied the associated master's degree in contemporary music at HfMDK Frankfurt.

Pedagogy

In addition to her artistic projects, Veronika is very involved in the field of music education: she has worked with children of 5th and 6th grades of an integrated comprehensive school in Offenbach am Main in 2021/2022 and was partner of a class for two years as part of a cooperation between ensemble reflektor and the Schule auf der Veddel in Hamburg. Since 2021 she has been teaching violin at the music school in Offenbach am Main.