Born in Bucharest on December 31, 1961, Verona Maier began studying the piano at the age of 6, as a student of teachers Maria Spirescu, Maria Zaharescu and Angela Marbé. In 1980, she studied under Ioana Minei and Ana Pitiş at the Bucharest Conservatory, where she graduated in 1984. In 2006, she obtained the Doctor of Music degree at the National University of Music in Bucharest, and since 1990 she has been professor as well as pro-rector of the same institution since 2016.
As a musician-performer (pianist, harpsichordist, organist, percussionist) or teacher, Verona Maier gave concerts and recitals and participated in festivals, radio and TV shows, was invited as a member or president of competition juries and gave masterclasses in Romania and Germany, Switzerland, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Israel, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Iran, Macedonia. Her recordings are on CDs produced in Romania and Germany, and she offered more than 150 musical works to the public for premiere performances. She has also provided expert music consulting on several films directed by Șerban Marinescu, Lucian Pintilie, Mircea Veroiu, Petru Maier Bianu and since 2014, she has been a member of the Romanian Filmmakers Union.
Verona Maier capitalized on her experience as a stage partner of important Romanian and foreign musicians, carrying out a very intense activity as piano accompanist at national and international competitions, and since 2009 she has been coordinating the teams of official piano accompanists of the George Enescu International Competition – the Violin and Cello sections.
She is vice-president of the ACCUMM Foundation, established in 1999 alongside her husband, the late filmmaker and writer Petru Maier Bianu, and coordinates the Foundation’s Music Season, hosted by the Suțu Palace in Bucharest. In 2004, the Romanian Presidency awarded Verona Maier the Medal of Cultural Merit, 1st Class.
