Irena Popović Dragović was born in Ćuprija, where she attended Dušan Skovran Music School. She studied composition and orchestration at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade (under Prof. Srđan Hofman and Prof. Zoran Erić) and continued graduate studies at Mozarteum University in Salzburg (under Prof. Reinhard Febel). She is active as a composer of applied and film music. She has written music for more than 100 theater plays and collaborated with many notable directors from the country and the region. She has won numerous awards, including three Sterija Awards, two International Small Scenes Theatre Festival Rijeka awards, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival award, and two Festival of Professional Theatres in Vojvodina awards.

Irena Popović Dragović also collaborates with various chamber ensembles, who frequently perform her compositions around the world. She is a high school and university lecturer, particularly keen on hosting creative workshops and camps and educating the youngest music and art audience. Irena Popović Dragović is the founder of the The Music Material Industry Group, which assembles performers and composers working in different environments and insists in bringing together different types of artistic expression. A branch of the group is Oh, meine liebe Constanzе Vocal Cultural and Artistic Society of Expansive Women, which promotes the creative work of women.

Children’s Carnival "Melodies of My Dreams"
The upcoming Ravanelius Music Festival brings children’s carnival "Melodies of My Dreams", hosted by Irena Popović Dragović. After three three-hour workshops, children will become familiar with the basic elements of musical creative expression, and then, at the end of the programme, they will perform in a carnival-type play, during which they will walk around the city with the audience. Through a mixture of music, dance, and acting, children will express what music means to them and what their unfulfilled dreams are.