Ivan Iankov is born in Bulgaria. Study piano in age of 7. Graduate from both High Music Schools in Sofia and Oslo. Living in Bulgaria to 1990, he is a bandleader of several pop and jazz ensembles and tour around Eastern and North Europa. From 1990 he moves his family to Norway and start teaching piano and chamber music in a college near Oslo. He is working with the projects about culture programme exchange between Norway and Bulgaria.
Back in Bulgaria now, he composes chamber and jazz music and takes part in several festivals with his music. Ivan Iankov is a member of THE UNION OF BULGARIAN COMPOSERS and MUSICAUTOR - the agency for copyrights