Sigrid Anita Haugen was born in Oslo, Norway, a classically trained pianist from Barratt Due Music Institution (age 6 - 18 years), she then went on to specialize in Jazz piano at the London Centre of Contemporary Music in 2015, where she got her Music Performance and Production Bachelor (Hons) degree, with the tutors Roland Perrin, Mike Drinkwater and Mark Armstrong. Moving to Dublin in 2016, she pursued a Masters (Hons) degree in Scoring for Film and Visual Media at Pulse College - also known as the Windmill Lane Studios, where she studied under internationally renowned tutors including Richard Bellis - Emmy Award winning composer for a miniseries Stephens King's It, Derek Gleeson - conductor and director of Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra, Andy Hill who served as vice-president of music production for The Walt Disney Studios (division) and Conrad Pope - Composer and orchestrator for films such as Harry Potter, Star Wars and more.

This led her to the opportunities of composing music for several short-films, video-libraries, Youtube-series, documentaries and VR-experiences internationally. Some of her credits include A sense of Color, a Norwegian based VR-experience exhibited at VR Nordic, in Hamar, Norway 2019; The Human Aspect, a documentary film for The Human Aspect that was premiered at the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival in Oslo and the UN HQ in New York 2018; Infinite Logic, for the London based independent film director Sam Robinson-Horley 2017; Level 2, that was nominated for the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival 2016; Reaper Tales, an LA based youtube TV series for Slap TV 2015.

Sigrid Anita is now pursuing a PhD in Music Composition, under the supervision of Grainne Mulvey at TU Dublin's Conservatory of Music and Drama. With such varied and diverse training in classical, jazz and film music genres, she has a lot to bring to the teaching studio, tailoring her approach to suit the needs of her students. Sigrid has enjoyed teaching piano, music theory and production in Dublin, London and Oslo. As a performer, Sigrid Anita has performed classical and jazz repertoires at venues across Oslo and London as both soloist and with ensembles.