Making music daily.

You can always find us making music in Voxman Music Building, whether our concert hall stage is full of orchestra members or a single musician is rehearsing in one of our high-tech studio spaces. You can catch our performances via livestream or watch a previous recording.

Concert livestreams

Can't make it in person? We have select live performances streamed in real time right here.

Concert recordings

Our YouTube channel is a treasure trove of concert videos, along with videos showing a glimpse into life as a music student at the University of Iowa.

Upcoming music events

MA Recital: Yu (Tracy) Qian, organ

Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Yu (Tracy) Qian, organ

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Brad Mehldau Trio

Sunday, May 10, 2026 6:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Expression and abstraction characterize the music of an indispensable jazz trio.

BA Senior Recital: Finley Marie Rose McVay, soprano

Sunday, May 10, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

BA Optional Senior Recital: Finley Marie Rose McVay, soprano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Brad Mehldau Trio

Sunday, May 10, 2026 8:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Expression and abstraction characterize the music of an indispensable jazz trio.

Schubert Song Cycle "Die Schöne Müllerin"

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Schubert Song Cycle "Die Schöne Müllerin"

Baritone: Ethan Elsbernd
Piano: Minji Kwon

This concert is free and open to the public.

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the fourth presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Tyler Hagy, conductor
City High Concert Choir

This concert is free and open to the public.

Joint Chamber Recital: Dolce and Moonlight Brass Quintets

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Chamber Recital: Dolce and Moonlight Brass Quintets

Natalie Roth, trumpet
Emily Bach, trumpet
Brad Balster, euphonium
Elliot Baughman, trombone
Bryson Kinnan, tubaTyler Cook, trumpet
Ashton Heim, trumpet
Charlie Muehlberger, horn
Kaleb Sutcliffe, trombone
Elly Kern, tuba

This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa Trombone Choir

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Trombone Choir

This concert is free and open to the public.

Recital: Chaosupei Gao, Flute

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA I Recital: Chaosupei Gao, Flute

Chaosupei Gao, Flute
Mariya Akhadjanova, piano

This event is free and open to the public.

Graduate Song Performance: Song Cycles

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 4:00pm
Voxman Music Building

An Afternoon of Song Cycles

Paul Cort, Adam Griffiths, Wendi Griffiths, Sarah Hachtman, Jack Power and Dr. Minji Kwon

This performance is free and open to the public.