Vera Veljkov-Medaković

Vera Veljkov-Medaković (July 18, 1923 – September 29, 2011) was a Serbian pianist and piano teacher.

Education Veljkov studied at the elementary and secondary music school "Stanković" in Belgrade. Her teacher, Rikard Schwartz, dedicated his Children's Suite for Piano to her when she was twelve. She graduated with honors. After she finished high school, she studied the piano at the Belgrade Music Academy piano department under prof. Emil Hayek, graduating with the highest marks in 1942.

As one of the most promising students of the Belgrade Music Academy, she traveled to Paris in 1947 for training. She studied the piano at the Conservatoire de Paris with Lazare Lévy for a period of two years, and then another year with Marguerite Long, where visiting "Les cours pour les Francais et Etrangers virtuoses". She later returned to Belgrade with a degree from the Paris Conservatory, she continued her work at the Music Academy,

She performed as a soloist in Austria, Germany, France, Romania and all the centers of the former Yugoslavia.

Personal life Veljkov married academician Dejan Medaković.