Violinist Veronica Kröner founded the AMICI MUSICI youth and student orchestra in 1995. Since 2008, she has been teaching violin didactics and supervising teaching practice students at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and is also active as a lecturer in professional development courses in Austria and abroad. In 1988, she co-founded the Duo Claviol with Adolf Hennig and the Styria Quartet, in which she plays first violin.
She completed her studies in violin performance and pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz under Klaus Eichholz. Further artistic development followed through studies and masterclasses with Max Rostal, Edith Peinemann, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Ion Voicu, Sándor Végh, Erich Höbarth, Ernst Kovacic, Monica Huggett, Ingrid Seifert, as well as with the Artis Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet.
Since 1992, Veronica Kröner has been a member of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus Wien. From 1989 to 1992, she served as leader of the Wiener Akademie, and later performed with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has been leader and soloist of the Haydn Academy Vienna since 1992, performing the complete cycle of Haydn symphonies and violin concertos. From 1996 to 1998, she held the same position with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.
As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player – frequently as leader – she has appeared in concerts, television broadcasts, and CD and DVD recordings, performing on both modern and historical instruments.
She has performed with ensembles including the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Salzburger Hofmusik, Piccolo Concerto Wien, Le Parlement de Musique Strasbourg, Ensemble Lyrique Amsterdam, La Stagione Frankfurt, Philharmonic Orchestra Graz, Orquesta Teatro Lliure Barcelona, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Die Reihe Wien, Kontrapunkte Wien and the Pythagoras Ensemble Freiburg. Her work has brought her together with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Milan Horvat, Trevor Pinnock, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding, Josep Pons and Hansjörg Schellenberger.
Teaching has always been a central part of her artistic activity. From 1989 to 1992, she worked as an assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. From 1992 onwards, she taught violin, viola and chamber music at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, where she also directed the orchestra from 2002 to 2008. She has been a member of the faculty at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2008.