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

Italian Shadows (Yager and Charles) promotional image

Italian Shadows (Yager and Charles)

Thursday, January 28, 2027 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Jean-Francois Charles: bass clarinet
Will Yager: double bass

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

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

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Songs for Lulu

Friday, January 29, 2027 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Abbigail Coté, Soprano

Ting-Ting Yang, Pianist

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

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

MA Recital: Joshua Levy, Trumpet promotional image

MA Recital: Joshua Levy, Trumpet

Monday, February 1, 2027 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

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

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UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, February 2, 2027 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Tavern Blue

Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City.

All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at Tavern Blue.

To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch with Damani Phillips.

Arie VandeWaa, Trombone Guest Artist

Tuesday, February 2, 2027 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music—A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 6: Disclosure promotional image

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music—A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 6: Disclosure

Monday, November 9, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Featuring Georgian chant on the ARP 2600 synthesizer.

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the sixth of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics that explains every kind of musical sign in our universe. The focus is on disclosure, or the musical event. There will be a première screening of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by Media Productions Workshop. The program then features the première of a work for...

Dolce Brass Senior Recital promotional image

Dolce Brass Senior Recital

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Natalie Roth, trumpet
Emily Bach, trumpet
Brad Balster, euphonium
Elliot Baughman, trombone
Bryson Kinnan, tuba

This concert is free and open to the public.

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

DMA I Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone promotional image

DMA I Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Program information will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music

Veteran's Day Concert

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This event is free and open to the public. 

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.

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

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Faculty Recital: Jonathan Allen and Mariya Akhadjanova

Friday, November 13, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Jonathan Allen, trombone

Mariya Akhadjanova, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert program will be available here: https://performingarts.uiowa.edu/digital-programs/music.