“She has guts and charm!, perfect timing, upcoming talent.”
“Straight from the heart.......,strong and convincing!”

Saskia Groenenberg has been performing on many stages in The Netherlands and abroad with various pop, soul and jazz formations and was a finalist in the Dutch jazz competition “Erasmus Jazz Prijs” 2003.

At the age of fourteen, Saskia Groenenberg was already performing on the stage of the dutch Jazzfestival “Jazz in Lighttown”. It was her first encounter with jazz and definitely not her last!

She was inspired by the bigband swing from the thirties (mainly Count Basie's bigband) and vocal jazz from the fifties, but also by the blues of Dinah Washington and the soul of Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway. She has also been influenced by the jazz, soul and dance music of today, her own generation.

All these styles can be heard in her arrangements but she clearly has a strong identity of her own. She mixes and integrates these styles of music into her own world. It results in arrangements that are fresh and groove and swing at the same time. She has a beautiful round, warm, flexible voice that can move between powerful sounds and smooth, gentle improvisations with ease.

During and after her studies at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) she gained a lot of experience by performing with various pop and soul bands and founded her own jazz quintet a couple of years ago. In her quintet, she plays with great professional musicians such as Joost Kroon, drummer of famous dutch band “New Cool Collective” and with well known trombone player Ilja Reijngoud.