As a violinist, Iba performs regularly with ensembles including the Grammy-nominated Wild Up and Synchromy New Music Collective, and she is the concertmaster of Derrick Skye’s award-winning Bridge to Everywhere ensemble,with whom she made the premiere recording of Skye’s Mind the Rhythm for solo violin and electronics. She has been featured on NPR with world-folk band Primero Sueno and is a regular studio musician for film and television. Iba is also an accomplished Baroque violinist and has played regularly with Musica Angelica, L.A. Camerata, and Jeannette Sorrell and members of Apollo’s Fire.

As an educator, Iba is the artistic director and principal conductor of the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, a groundbreaking program that introduces young musicians to contemporary and cross-cultural music alongside traditional western classical repertoire. The group performed at Carnegie Hall in April 2024. She has lectured extensively in music history and has appeared as an instructor and guest lecturer with organizations including California Institute of the Arts, Mount St. Mary’s University, Ventura College, and Longy School of Music of Bard College, and she is on the faculty of Kinhaven Music School and the Walden School Young Musicians Program. She is also a regular pre-concert lecturer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and her talks can be heard on the Upbeat Live podcast.

Iba holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded a Marilyn McDonald scholarship and the Louis and Annette Kaufman Prize in Violin in 2014.