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

Protecting Water, Protecting Community: Short Films & Dialogue on Indigenous Land and Water Defense

Thursday, April 9, 2026 5:30pm to 7:15pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Join us for an evening of short films and community conversation exploring movements to protect water, land, and community.

The program will feature a curated selection of short films highlighting water protection movements in the Midwest, and beyond. Following the screenings, Dakota elder and historian Tim Mentz Sr. and Sikowis Nobiss, Cree-Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan and the founder and executive director of the Great Plains Action Society, will participate in a...

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Faculty Recital: Ksenia Nosikova, piano

Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Recital: Ksenia Nosikova, piano

This concert is free and open to the public. 

DMA III Recital: Kylie Little, viola

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA III Recital: Kylie Little, viola

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Dobet Gnahoré

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
The celebrated Ivoirian singer-songwriter brings a fresh blend of rhythms and cultural influences to her performances.
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Orchestra Baobab

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
A multi-generation Afro-Cuban band endlessly reinvigorating its sound.
Canceled

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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The Music Man

Saturday, March 28, 2026 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

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The Music Man

Saturday, March 28, 2026 7:00pm to 9:45pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

Cello Dayz Concert

Saturday, March 28, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Cello Dayz Concert

This concert is free and open to the public. 

Canceled

Joint Campus A Cappella Concert

Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

A Night of A Cappella

Intersection A Cappella
Old Gold A Cappella
Hawkappellas
Aca-demics
Iowa Agni

This concert is free and open to the public.

The Music Man promotional image

The Music Man

Sunday, March 29, 2026 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...