Sarah Ioannides (born 1972,[1] Canberra) is a British conductor, collaborator, and multimedia producer living in the United States.

[2] Her father, Ayis Ioannides, is a conductor and composer of Greek Cypriot ancestry[3] Her mother, Gwyneth Woollard, is of Scottish ancestry, studying violin, piano, and French horn from an early age, she entered Oxford University on an instrumental scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In 2018, Ioannides became the founding artistic director of the Cascade Conducting Institute, a week-long international masterclass held in partnership with Symphony Tacoma.

She has conducted over forty world premieres, including works by Stephen Paulus, Marie Samuelsson, Hannah Lash, Richard Danielpour, Dario Marianelli, and Claudio Constantini.

[7] In her work with orchestras around the world, she is a spokesperson for more diverse composers and guest artists, as well as supporting emerging women and minority conductors in her role as coach and mentor.

A notable example of such cross-sector projects is "Fire Mountain" (2017), a collaboration with the National Parks Association, Tacoma's Museum of Glass, and Hilltop Artists.

[9] In 2019, she recorded works by Marie Samuelsson, including the Love Trilogy and Airborne Lines and Rumbles, with the Malmö Symphony and Nordic Chamber Orchestra.