Vivienne Aerts (1986) started making music at an early age. At twelve years old, she became the pianist of the children's-choir in which she had been singing. She won the second prize at the Solisten Concourses in 2001 and 2002 at the CKC Muziekschool Zoetermeer. 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. Her teachers were Rachel Gould, Lenie van den Heuvel, Erik Albjerg, Erik Gieben, along with others from the upper strata of Dutch musical education. 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 in the port city included Fay Claassen, Bart de Win, Harjo Pasveer, Hans Mantel, Kris Goessens and Wim Essed. The following summer she once again ventured to Italy to participate in the Venetojazz Workshop in Bassano del Grappa. Her teachers there included Amy London & Billy Harper from the New School New York and Francesca Bertazzo Hart.

November of 2008 saw the publication of a book about the history of Jazz in Leiden, including several paragraphs about Vivienne in the "Future of Jazz" chapter. In October 2009 Vivienne got her first CD, self-made, called 'roof garden'. With this music she performed during the Leiden Jazz week in 2010. Vivienne also won the Zoetermeer Jazz Award in 2010 played at the Jazz Festival Zoetermeer.

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 Inholland to study jazz/pop choir direction with Tijs Krammer, and graduated in May 2011.

Vivienne has several musical collaborators with whom she forms different combinations. Her most prominent jazz combination is named: "Aqua Sapone". This Italian phrase literally translates to 'water and soap', and is used to signify 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. Then there is VUO, a double bass-voice duet. VUO performances tend to be very intimate and especially suited to small occasions. Finally, Vivienne was a member for three years of the chamber- and big choir of Collegium Musicum in Leiden. She was also one of the girls of Laccorda, the girls choir project of pianist Cor Bakker.

Also singing while accompanied by larger groups of musicians, Vivienne sang for the Fly Over Bigband from Voorburg and she is the stand-in pianist/singer for Nic's Bigband from Zoetermeer. Vivienne works as a piano and vocal teacher as well and gives workshops in both capacities. She also works as a conductor of serveral choirs.

Recently, Vivienne has been involved in the organization and realization of several cultural festivals in Leiden. In February 2009, she was the driving force behind Stukafest Leiden, a festival where student rooms were used as podia. In October 2009 and 2010, she successfully translated that concept to the waiting rooms at several Central train stations in Holland for the NS Try Out Festival.

In addition to her study of music, Vivienne has also studied Clinical Psychology at Leiden University for the past seven years. She currently finished her Master thesis on the subject of emotion and music. She also participated in the University of Amsterdam bid for the Academische Jaarprijs of 2007/2008. The bid consisted of a proposed research project that would study the effect that music has on the listener.