[4] She studied music at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Julius Roentgen, Louis Coenan, Hugo Riemann, Bernard Zweers, and later with Alfred Cortot, and Leopold Godowsky.

[7] Soon after, she withdrew from her position on the Netherlands Committee for Arts, Science, and Friendly Relations to pursue music full time in America.

She played piano in Winthrop Ames' production of Pierrot the Prodigal and gave solo recitals, advertising performances of "modern and ulta-modern composers such as Chabrier, Debussy, Roger, Scriabine and Lambord" for her 1917–1918 season.

[8] Vollenhoven composed and played at least two piano pieces for the De Luxe Reproducing Roll Corporation: The Thought of You and Viennese Waltz.

[11] She also wrote "A Visit with Richard Pitrot", for the Musical Monitor in 1921,[12] and a tribute to Leopold Godowsky for a New Jersey newspaper in 1938.