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

Kinky Boots

Saturday, January 24, 2026 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.

Kinky Boots

Sunday, January 25, 2026 2:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

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.

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

DMA III Recital: Yang Zhou, saxophone

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

DMA III Recital: Yang Zhou, saxophone
Yang Zhou, saxophone
Casey Dierlam Tse, collaborative piano

This event is free and open to the public.

UI Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

UI Symphony Orchestra

University Symphony Orchestra Presents Voices Unbound

Kenny Lee, Conductor

Jamie Clark, Cello

Greg Hand, Organ

Join us for the second UISO concert of the fall semester! The program opens with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, a vibrant and celebratory work full of bubbling energy. At the heart of the program is the haunting world premiere of The World According to…, a new cello concerto by Nicky Sohn, featuring Jamie Clark as soloist. This powerful work carries a deeply personal...