Saskia Törnqvist has been teaching music and cultural history, as well as the elective course on concert programming, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2015. After completing her recorder studies, she studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam, culminating in a master's thesis on the Dutch reception of Dmitri Shostakovich's work. For about twenty years, she worked as a freelance music journalist for Het Parool, where she published extensively on world music. Additionally, she worked as a freelance editor-in-chief for the Concertgebouw, the Cello Biennale Amsterdam, and the International Choir Biennale. She was a regular concert introducer at venues such as the Tropentheater and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. She is currently a member of the program committee for the Musica Sacra festival in Maastricht.

She is currently working on a publication and a lecture series titled 'Women Wrote Music History! Click here for more information.