Sanna van Vliet studied jazz vocals and jazz piano at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, graduating in both principal subjects. Subsequently, she attended the three-year teacher training program Complete Vocal Technique (CVT) in Copenhagen. During her conservatory studies, she founded her own quartet with which she performed at leading jazz venues, jazz festivals and theaterssuch as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Amersfoort Jazz Festival, Meerjazz, The Hague Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, De Tor, Breda Jazz Festival, Red Light Jazz Festival and more. She gave concerts in more then 16 countries, among them China, Thailand and South Korea. Sanna performed with Ruud Jacobs, Frans Elsen, John Engels, Rob van Kreeveld, The Beets Brothers, Ferdinand Povel, Tineke Postma, Wouter Hamel, Eric Ineke, Doug Rainey, Lucas van Merwijk, Jarmo Hoogendijk, Peter Bernstein and Joe Cohn, among others.

Sanna released six CDs under her own name, the last two albums with her current trio Something about Sanna of which contain purely her own compositions. Furthermore she was part of two releases of Chamber 9, a unique ensemble with string quartet.

Sanna started her own method for vocal improvisation in 2002 and has been teaching this subject ever since. She is a regular teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam teaching vocal improvisation, piano accompaniment for singers, duo class piano and voice and ensembles.. Additionally, she has been a guest teacher at the conservatoires of Maastricht, Groningen, Enschede and The Hague and has given workshops in Würzburg Germany, Spain, China and South Korea.

“Sanna van Vliet’s cd Dance on the Moon is my favorite cd that has been sent to me lately! She has a beautiful, inviting sound, and great bebop lines, nice piano feel. I love the scat solos, and I am very picky about this topic - most scat singing is so far from the instrumental understanding that I think it requires. Hers is the 'real deal'.” - Darmon Meader, New York Voices.