Iris Szeghy was born in
Prešov,
Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in
Košice and composition at the Music Academy in
Bratislava, she ended it with a doctoral degree at the same school. Szeghy went through numerous composer residencies - at the
Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, at the
University of California at
San Diego, at the STEIM Studio in
Amsterdam, at the State Opera in
Hamburg, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she was a scholar of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London and Budapest etc. Iris Szeghy has won many international composition awards, her work has been performed and broadcast in
Europe,
America and
Australia. ==Works==