Vivienne Aerts

Vivienne Aerts (1986) started making music at an early age. She played in the finals of the Kunstbende 2004 in Vredenburg - Utrecht with her own tune Green Mist. After finishing high school in 2004, she spent three years studying jazz singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. During a 2007 summer workshop in Umbria, Italy she won a $8.000 scholarship to study jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston USA. In September of that year she continued her study of jazz singing at the Rotterdam conservatory. Her teachers included Rachel Gould, Fay Claassen, Bart de Win, Harjo Pasveer and Hans Mantel.

November of 2008 saw the publication of a book about the history of Jazz in Leiden, which included several paragraphs about Vivienne in the "Future of Jazz" chapter. In the 2008/2009 academic year she took a short break from jazz to study classical conducting in Rotterdam with Wiecher Mandemaker. In the summer of 2009 she transferred to the conservatory of Alkmaar for her current academic undertaking: studying jazz/pop choir direction with Tijs Krammer. Vivienne has several musical collaborators with whom she performs in different combinations. Her most prominent jazz combination is "Aqua Sapone". This Italian phrase translates to 'water and soap', and signifies natural beauty (as in "you don't need anything but water and soap"). This band, a jazz quintet with the occasional added string quartet, performs Vivienne's own songs. With her own jazz combos and trios she performs in the The Hague region, playing jazz standards from the American songbook. Furthermore, Vivienne also works as a conductor of Vocalzz, a student jazz choir in Delft, and the Leedvermaak pop choir in Leiden.Her latest project was her own performance at the Leiden Jazz festival at 20 January of 2010.