Margrethe Holm Andersen

Co-founder and CEO

Margrethe holds a Master in Public Administration and a PhD in Social Science from Aalborg University in Denmark and worked for many years with Danida / the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2013, she joined Aalborg University to help support the establishment of an African network on research in Innovation and Development (AfricaLics). She has done research on gender, health and renewable energy issues, and has lived and worked in Tanzania, Kenya and Nicaragua. From 2017-2022 she served as the chair of the Board of Danida Fellowship Centre. Today she is a private consultant based in Copenhagen and devotes part of her time to develop new ideas and projects on music, art and literature in line with the values and vision of Siren Vibes Publishing.

Beate Marion Willma

Co-founder

Beate was a Copenhagen-based German composer who worked as a choral conductor, arranger, producer, organist and singer. She trained at Stuttgart Music Academy (Prof. Bernhard Haas, organ) and sung at Kammerchor Stuttgart (Prof. Frieder Bernius). She held a MMus and a PhD in historical musicology from King’s College London and a cand. mus. degree in classical choral conducting from Odense (Alice Granum).

She worked for the Stuttgart and Copenhagen Opera Houses as a production dramaturge, as an organist and conductor in many churches and commissioned, produced and conducted several world premieres of larger choral and ensemble works in Europe and China, before starting to compose her own music. She passed away in May 2022.