Veronika Antunović-Marić began playing the oboe at the age of 14. She completed her primary and secondary music education in Novi Sad at the “Isidor Bajić” Music School in the class of Prof. Žužana Egić.
In 1995, she enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where she studied with Prof. Ljubiša Petruševski and Vladimir Puškaš, graduating under the guidance of Prof. Gábor Dienes (Budapest). During the academic year 1999/2000, she studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in the class of Prof. Péter Pongrácz. She completed her master’s studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in the class of visiting professor János Kemeny (Budapest).
She attended masterclasses with eminent oboe professors, including Han de Vries (Netherlands), László Hadady (France), Lajos Lencsés (Germany), János Kemeny (Hungary), Stefan Schilli (Germany), and Hansjörg Schellenberger (Germany), as well as chamber music masterclasses with Prof. Norbert Girlinger (Austria) and Prof. Boštjan Lipovšek (Slovenia). During her studies, she achieved numerous successes at competitions, notably receiving the highest awards at the National Competition in Belgrade in 1995 and 1997.
She has performed at many concerts as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles in Serbia and abroad (Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia). She was a member of the wind quartet “Quaternion”. As a member of the Vojvodina Youth Philharmonic and the Novi Sad Soloists, she performed extensively in Serbia and internationally (Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Germany).
In 2004 she was a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland), with which she performed throughout Europe and the Middle East, and in 2010 she collaborated with the Maribor International Orchestra (Slovenia). From 2001 to 2011 she taught oboe at the “Vlado Milošević” Music School in Banja Luka. Since its founding, she has served as principal oboist of the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra. She also collaborates with the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, the Orfelin Orchestra, the Makris Symphony Orchestra, the Zrenjanin Philharmonic, the Subotica Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgrade Philharmonic.
Since 2000, she has been the principal oboist of the Opera Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Veronika Antunović-Marić is a member of the Novi Sad Wind Quintet and the trio Heroine Novi Sad. She is also one of the initiators and founders of the Chamber Music Festival in Novi Sad, the first festival of its kind in the city.