Why Iowa?

We're a close-knit artistic community within a major research university that's famous for its arts programs. We offer world-class musical instruction, ongoing performance opportunities, state-of-the-art facilities, and solid preparation for your career.

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It’s hard to find a school of music that delivers so many opportunities all within an undeniably individualized and inspirational setting.

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Creativity is at the heart of everything we do. We blend artistry and technology to offer a tremendous variety of ways to enjoy the performing arts.

Guest Artist Highlight

Steven Schick Residency

In October 2024, Hancher Auditorium hosted a weeklong residency led by percussionist, author, and conductor Steven Schick, an Iowa native and UI School of Music alumnus (76BM, 78MA). During his residency, Schick led master classes, gave lectures and a recital, and performed a concert with Iowa Percussion. Additional percussionists traveled to Iowa City from across the Midwest to perform John Luther Adams’ INUKSUIT outdoors in City Park, led by Schick.

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You've worked hard on your music. Now you can use all that creativity and knowledge as your launch pad. If you dream of a musical career—or simply a musical life—Music at Iowa is right for you.

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Student-to-faculty ratio

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350 +

Annual public performances

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450

Undergraduate and graduate students

Events

Optional Chamber Recital: Dolce Brass

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
This event has been rescheduled to April 26th.
Canceled

Guest Artist Recital: Yu Tamaki Hoso, trombone

Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artist Recital: Yu Tamaki Hoso, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.  View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943843
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Ritwik Banerji: Timbral Navigation and Dancing in Virtual Space

Friday, April 4, 2025 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Ritwik Banerji: Timbral Navigation and Dancing in Virtual SpaceRich in variation across musical culture and history, spatial and kinetic metaphors have frequently been key discursive frames for understanding musical structure. So what happens if we attempt to take them quite literally and exploit them as the basis for composition or improvisation? In this talk, I describe my work in a project to take such metaphors quite seriously through the development of a variety of interactive audiovisual...

Live Fieldwork in Astromusicology

Friday, April 4, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Live Fieldwork in Astromusicology While astromusicologists have explored the musical practices of nearby planets like Brazil, India, Java, Palestine, etc., they have yet to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in more distant reaches of the universe. In this concert, the Society for Astromusicology explores the musical practices of the Maxineans, inhabitants of a distant region of our universe ruled by the spirit of Maxine, who has corrupted the laws of physics such that all sound was always already...
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