Picture by Anna Tena.
Veronique De Raedemaeker (born 1996) is a Belgian violinist living in Cologne.
She is laureate of several national and international violin and chamber music competitions,
including Young Belgian Talent, Internationaler Anton Rubinstein Wettbewerb, Concours
Breughel, Belfius Classics, interner Kammermusikwettbewerb HfMT Köln, Internationaler
Violinwettbewerb der Kulturstiftung Hohenlohe and Vieuxtemps Concours. From 2020 - 2022
she was a scholarship holder of the Werner Richard Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung, which selected her for the concert tour “Best of NRW”, and she was artist in residence of SWUK in 2022-2023. Over the years, she has has been supported in various areas by YBT, for which she is very grateful.
Veronique began her violin studies with Francis Reusens at the Academy for Music, Word and
Dance in Lier. After studying Greek - Mathematics, which she combined with “Jong
Conservatory,” she graduated in 2016 from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp
with a Bachelor of Music with Alissa Margulis. Under the tuition of Barnabás Kelemen, she obtained the highest distinction for the master's degree in Violin Solo and Neue Musik at the
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln where, in the class of Mikhail Ovrutsky in 2023, she completed the Konzertexamen degree with “summa cum laude.”
In parallel, she learned from renowned musicians such as Philippe Graffin at the Royal
Conservatoire of Brussels, Ivry Gitlis, Julia Fisher, Tatiana Samouil, David Quiggle, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Pavel Vernikov, Paulo Álvares, Görgyi Pauk, Kristóf Baráti, Jonian Ilias Kadesha and András Keller and participated in master classes and concerts at the Verbier Festival, Lugano Festival, Luzerne Festival, Schiermonnikoog Young Talent Festival, Festival Académie Ravel, Budapest Festival Academy, Musica Mundi and others.
Over the past years, Veronique has been invited to perform at the Klavierfestival Ruhr,
Arte Amanti Festival, Festival Rencontres musicales internationales Enghien and Acht Brücken
Festival Köln. Recent solo performances include works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms, concerts featuring with the Köln Sinfonietta, Gödölö Symphony Orchestra, East Flanders Symphony Orchestra and the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg. She has performed in concert halls such as Flagey & Bozar Brussels, Amuz Antwerp, Miry & De Bijloke Ghent, Philharmonie Cologne, WDR Funkhaus and Tonhalle Düsseldorf. In November 2023, she played Beethoven's Triple Concerto at the Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp.
A passionate chamber musician, she performs regularly with her own ensembles - Trio Gilu,
Oreneta Kammerensemble, ÉRMA Ensemble and in duo with pianist Alexander Declercq (Duo
Altiler) and with harpist Mathilde Wauters.
Her CD Malinconia with works by Prokofiev and Ysaÿe was praised for its “richness in sound
and instinctively beautiful phrasing” and was awarded in 2020 by the flemisch classical radio with the Choice of Klara.
In 2022, together with her Trio Gilu, she released the CD “Garland - Songs for Soprano, Violin
and Harp” and in 2023 she published the single ‘Bach and Berio - a dyptich’. All of her publications are released by Etcetera Records.
Her fascination with new music has allowed her to collaborate with contemporary composers such as Unsuk Chin, Helmut Lachenmann, Heinz Holliger and many others. She is a founding member of the ÉRMA Ensemble supported by Deutscher Musikrat , which specializes in the performance of new music.
Veronique plays on a violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner. In 2024, she was featured on the program of “The Twintigers” on Klara.