She is the first Mongolian musician to perform as a solo artist at Carnegie Hall.
[1] She and her husband organized the biannual Ciudad de Huesca International Piano Competition in Spain, beginning in 1999.
Her family was heavily involved in music and art; she began piano lessons at age five, studying with her father and mother.
Later, she began study at Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied the tradition of Russian pianism from Tatiana Galitskaya, Nina Emelyanova, and Margarita Fyodorova.
Sayantsetseg has also been a strong advocate for the work of Mongolian composers, including her father, Choigiviin Sangidorj, and her brother, Sangidorjiin Sansargereltekh.