Marko Ivanović studied composition at the Prague's Conservatory (prof.Jiří Kollert, prof.Ivan Kurz) and then at the Prague's Academy of Music (prof.Václav Riedlbauch). He graduated in 2002 with his chamber opera "Girl and Death" (awarded on festival Opera 2003). He is currently engaged as a conductor with the Opera Ensemble of the National Theatre in Prague (since 2006), and he had been holding the position as Principal Conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice (from 2009 till 2014). In 2015, he has been appointed chief conductor of the Janáček Opera of the Brno National Theatre. 

As a composer of artificial (concert, autonomous) music he often cooperates with leading Czech ensembles focused on this type of music (Agon Orchestra, Moens Ensemble, Berg chamber orchestra,...), his compositions were already performed on many concert stages and festivals in Czech and abroad. (New Music Marathon - Praha, Young Prague, Tridenni, Days of Contemporary Music - Bratislava, Wien Modern-Vídeň, Europe Young Classic-Berlín, in Budapest, Koln, Katowice, Barcelona, atd.). Many of his compositions were also recorded by Czech, Austrian or German radio stations. His piece "Des Wahnsinnigen Morgensuite"(2003) is included in monography by S.Niedermayr a Ch.Scheib "European Meridians"(Saarbrucken,2003).

He has composed many theatrical, radio and movie musical pieces, and cooperated with theatres Alfred ve dvore, Divadlo na zábradlí, Divadlo v Celetne, Viola, Damuza, DISK, Myron-Ostrava, Municipal theatre Cesky Tesin, etc..