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

Longing: Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

Sunday, January 25, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Faculty & Guest Artist Recital: Longing

Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music--A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Monday, January 26, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third 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.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Thursday, January 29, 2026 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Wynton Marsalis and his eminent ensemble return with an inspired Ellington program.

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Saturday, January 31, 2026 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Nick Miller, percussion
Hanna Rumora, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio

Saturday, January 31, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio

Anna Williams, violin
Mikhail Veselov, cello
Eri Nakamura, piano

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

Optional Recital: Henry Wolf, piano

Saturday, November 15, 2025 5:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Henry Wolf, piano

This event is free and open to the public.

The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Three of history’s greatest composers come back for a chat about music and more. The Classical Style follows Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn as they return to earth to discover the current music scene. Full of inside jokes about music theory and musicology, the zany one act opera will be presented in an intimate black box setting.