Age Veeroos 2018 at home, by Mall Kullamaa_edited.jpg

Age Veeroos obtained her master's degree cum laude in composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn in 2006 (under Eino Tamberg and Helena Tulve). In 2005/2006 she studied with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe Higher Music School.

She attended international composition courses including IRCAM Summer Course for composers in Paris (2004) and Centre Acanthes in Metz (2005), master classes with Salvatore Sciarrino, Georg Friedrich Haas and others. 2010, together with a 5-member team she took part and won the main prize in a music theatre project competition of Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin. Her chamber music album "Outlines of the Night", released by Kairos in 2024 was awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic's Choice of the prize der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 4/2024.

“As a child I learned piano, saxophone, later also double bass, early music singing and composition. In the 90s, as a student I started to learn more about new music, composers like Boulez, Ligeti, Reich and others, performed at the contemporary music festivals in Estonia. This experience changed my life... Today I work as freelance composer."

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On 16 July 2023, at the concert by Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra at the Pärnu Music Festival, Age Veeroos was presented with the Lepo Sumera Award for Composition.
"Age Veeroos is one of the most important creators of Estonian sound-modernist chamber music. The radicalism of the sound modernist turn in the 1990s was apparently completely unnoticed even by the most important composers who represented this turn, whose works still paid a certain toll on tradition in terms of form. An uncompromising seeker, Age Veeroos has spent decades exploring the meaning of a sound-based composition and rejecting all too obvious or convenient solutions. The result is a rare balance between sound and form. (...) The personal poetic expression is supported by an important layer of electronics, in the use of which Age Veeroos is one of the most consistent and determined on the Estonian music scene."

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"Veeroos masterfully weaves together radiant energy and tense, ambiguous rhetoric. The music effortlessly fuses microtonality with electronics, explores the limits of instrumental technique, and embraces both obsessive surrealism and elements of Estonian folk music. (...) Contemporary music requires — no, demands — highly committed musicians who have made even the most complex pieces entirely their own. On this album, everything comes together perfectly: intense engagement, technical mastery, and crystal-clear recordings that offer far more than mere polish." OpusKlassiek by Aart van der Wal, CD-recensie

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"The five Estonian works date from 2007 to 2015, all for chamber ensemble, various combinations of strings, woodwind, piano, trombone and percussion. There was only one première here, Aither by Age Veeroos, but that proved a highlight. Most of this piece is made up of breathy, unpitched sounds, breathing into the trombone, a sheet of paper brushed across the strings of the piano. But from this background definite pitches gradually emerge, as if reluctant to come into the foreground. The whole process is very gentle, and teasingly ambiguous, but describes a clear arc, with the notes eventually receding into the unpitched sounds and the work ending with gentle brush of a bowed cymbal." Bachtrack by Gavin Dixon, Ensemble Sepia: Zooming Estonia.