Sára Iván was born on 15th February 1995 in Szeged (Hungary). After completing primary music school, she studied at the Vántus István Music Secondary School of Szeged where she graduated in 2013. Afterwards she was admitted to the Faculty of Singing at the University of Szeged, in the class of István Andrejcsik, where she graduated with a BA in 2016 and an MA in 2019. During the university years, she won the Sófi Foundation Scholarship three times, which gave her the opportunity to give a composer’s debut concert at the MÜPA in Budapest (2016).
She started her composition studies at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatorio in Bolzano (Italy) with Prof. Heinrich Unterhofer, at the same time she strated Master’s degree in opera singing in Szeged. In the third year of her Italian studies she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship to study composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Prof. Marie Samuelsson. At the same time she studied conducting with Prof. Emir Omar Saul and Prof. Glenn Mossop.
Her compositions have been presented at the Vántus István Contemporary Music Days in Szeged, at the Festival of Young Composers of Szeged, at the Festival di Musica Contemporanea a Bolzano ed Udine, at the ljudOljud Festival in Stockholm, at the Gustav Mahler Musikwochen in Toblach. Her operetta Ez történt Bécsben (It happened in Wien) was performed at the Bartók Plusz Opera Festival in Miskolc in 2013 and then at the Szeged National Theatre in 2015.
She won the second prize and the Public-prise at the 24th Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik 2023 / Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerbe in Weimar (Germany) with her piece Fragment über die Hoffnung. She was awarded the Music Award of the Katona József National Theatre in Kecskemét in 2023.
She is currently a conductor and an accompanist at the Katona József National Theatre in Kecskemét (Hungary).
