Veronika Skuplik started her violin studies at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, and went on to study baroque violin at the University of the Arts, Bremen, with Thomas Albert. She also studied German language, Musicology and Pedagogy at the Westfälische Wilhelms University. She is now a teacher in the Early Music Department of the University of the Arts Bremen and has a studio of students from as far afield as Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Russia, and Columbia. She has recently led courses, master classes and orchestral projects at the music colleges of Utrecht (Netherlands), Malmö (Sweden), Katowice (Poland) as well as at Oberlin and Carnegie Hall in New York (USA).
Veronika naturally gravitates towards repertoire of the 17th century, which she loves for the room it leaves for improvisation as well as its close connection to singing and rhetorical techniques of the time. Colleagues, audiences and critics all appreciate her speaking and singing manner of making music. She now mainly plays with ensembles that take a “one to a part” approach such as l’Arpeggiata, Concerto Palatino, Weserrenaissance, Collegium Vocale Gent, and in her own ensemble La dolcezza. She also regularly tours programmes of chamber music with her close musical partners Kris Verhelst (harpsichord/organ) and Andreas Arend (Lute). In recent years, concert tours have led her through Europe, US, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia. Her discography includes more than 90 recordings on labels including Harmonia mundi, Virgin, APO, Alpha, Chrismon, and others.