Laetitia van Krieken was born in 1964 in Helmond, the Netherlands. She started playing piano at the age of seven. After finishing her studies in sculpture and textile artforms at the Mollerinstituut Tilburg (NL), she studied jazz piano at the Brabants Conservatory in Tilburg (NL) with Willem Kühne.
Laetitia van Krieken has performed and recorded with many different groups and musicians such as Soft Parade (cd produced by Dave Stewart), Van Krieken Kempen Sextet (jazz), Tom America’s aNDERE ANDERe, Simon Ho Orchestra (project of Swiss musician Simon Ho and friends, the Finnish group Värttinä and Dutch group Nits).
She played keyboards (electric violin, accordeon) and sang with the famous Dutch popgroup NITS for seven years. From 1998 till 2004 they performed in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Spain, Finland, Estonia, Japan and Canada.
She has also performed with the following theatre-companies like
Theater VandenBulck (Baba Jaga)
Wetten van Kepler (Baron von Münchaussen, Wolperding, Don Quichot)
Bloeiende Maagden (Bloeiende Maagden gaan vreemd, Bloeiende Maagden gaan naar Oz)
Hotel Witlox (Blote Handen, Alfa)
Stella Den Haag (Shaffy voor Kinderen)
She has composed for Laetitia van Krieken’s Big Bang, Van Krieken Kempen Sextet, Pascal Vermeer Quintet, Lewinsky Quartet and TriDali (this classical ensemble won the 2nd price at ‘Concours International de Musique de Chambre avec Harpe’ in Arles, France in 2003 playing Van Krieken’s composition suite ‘Saptadhá’) and she has also written arrangements for Dutch modern composer Tom America. She has composed and written arrangements for a special concert 'Jujubileum!' of theatre Speelhuis, Helmond (October 2007) that celebrated its 30 year anniversary.
Laetitia is composer/musician of Hotel Witlox, a co-operation between actor/writer Herman van de Wijdeven, designer Simon Haen and Laetitia van Krieken. Their first musical theatre-performance was 'Blote Handen' (2007) with Jacqueline Hamelink (cello) and Marcel Roelfsema (actor). The second succesfull theatre-performance was 'Alfa' they performed at theatrefestival De Boulevard, Den Bosch (august 2009)
She composed with Wiebe Gotink for the performance 'Esitu' of company Bencha Theater (September 2009). Laetitia composed for Tilburg 200 year celebration 'Betoverende Sluiting' (December 2009). Laetitia arranged and composed for theatre-performance 'Shaffy voor Kinderen' of theatre-company Stella Den Haag (spring 2010).
Laetitia has given workshops at jazz-club Paradox, Tilburg. She has also taught at the Hogeschool voor Kunsten Utrecht, Conservatory (2000) and Brabants Conservatory, Tilburg (2002/2003).
In 2005 she became teacher piano, theory, composition and arranging at the Conservatory Rotterdam (Pop Academy).