Veit-Jacob Walter was born in Lahr / Black Forest. As a performer he is specialized in music from the 14th till the 18th century. As a researcher he is very interested in the fields of musical iconography, organology and theory. As a harpsichordist and organist, he has given concerts in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Lebanon with repertoires from the Notre-Dame School to contemporary works. 

Veit-Jacob has won several prizes such as the Concours artistique d’Épinal and the Händel competition Karlsruhe/Baden. 

He studied organ and composition in Freiburg with Martin Schmeding, in Hannover with Tobias Lindner, in Berlin and Regensburg. In 2014, he started his studies in harpsichord at the Bruckner University in Linz with Jörg Halubek, and in 2016, he proceeded to study medieval keyboard instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Corina Marti and Crawford Young. He graduated from both universities with honors. 

He is a scholarship holder of the German Clavichord Society (Deutsche Clavichord Sozietät DCS). 

Since 2018, he has been a guest teacher of harpsichord and early music theory at the Université Antonine in Beirut. 

As a director, his staging has not least been inspired by the expressionist silent film and literature of the 1920s.

For the current season, he is appointed assistant director at the Chemnitz Opera House.