Events

upcoming concerts + events Special event series events for recital attendance

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

Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival

Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, 2026 (all day)

Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

The Iowa City International Film Festival is a student-run experimental film festival hosted in Iowa City.

Orchestrating Connections: Or What’s the Point of Musicology?

Friday, April 24, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Voxman Music Building

A discussion with musicologist Douglas Shadle (Vanderbilt University) about how musicological work can inform or shape connections between scholars, performers, and audiences. Come enjoy a slice of what people have been calling “public musicology” but in the context of orchestras, or classical ensemble music in general (e.g., chamber music, etc.). This talk is sponsored by the University of Iowa Libraries in collaboration with the School of Music. It is presented in connection with the Main...

Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone

Friday, April 24, 2026 3:30pm

Voxman Music Building

DMA I Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone

Casey Dierlam Tse
Kian Hyatt

Concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled

Recital: Killian Ritland

Friday, April 24, 2026 5:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Recital: Killian Ritland

This concert is free and open to the public.

MA Recital: Portuguese Works for Saxophone, Sofia Sena

Friday, April 24, 2026 5:30pm

Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Portuguese Works for Saxophone, Sofia Sena

Solo Saxophone, Piano, Saxophone Octet

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Audition Days

Event series

Piano Sundays

Eine Kleine Lunch Music

a recent jazz jam session with students shown playing bass, saxophone, trumpet, trombone in a retro-styled restaurant setting

Monthly Jazz Jam

Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries

JACK Quartet playing in Voxman's Recital Hall as part of a collaboration between Hancher Auditorium and the School of Music, part of the String Quartet Residency Program

UI String Quartet Residency Program

Upcoming events for recital attendance

Beetlejuice. The Musical. The Musical. The Musical.

Saturday, May 2, 2026 7:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. With an irreverent book, an astonishing set, and a score that’s out of this Netherworld, Beetlejuice is “SCREAMINGLY GOOD FUN!” (Variety). And under its uproarious surface (six feet under, to be exact), it’s a remarkably touching show about family, love, and making the most of every Day-O!