After obtaining her high school diploma, at Stedelijk Gymnasium Breda, Schoenmaker studied Liberal Arts for a year at Oxford Brookes University.
[2] In June of that year she was awarded the Jacques de Leeuw Prize, as the most talented student of executive education in the Netherlands.
On 7 September 2015, Schoenmaker returned to West End in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera as the female lead of Christine Daaé.
In 2019 Celinde took on the role of Franca in Light in the Piazza, she played the role in London and LA Opera[5] In 2020 Celinde performed the two hander Marry Me A Little[6] Most recently, she's appeared in concerts of Camelot as Nimue, Jesus Christ Superstar as Mary, Doctor Zhivago as Lara, and Love Never Dies as Christine.
[11] In 2021 she played the role of Saskia in Our House [12] In 2016, she astonished shoppers in Covent Garden by supporting a local busker (Steven Barry) by singing "All I Ask of You" with him.