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

Gabriel Kahane

Sunday, February 22, 2026 4:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

The confines of “singer-songwriter” are too limiting to hold this artist and his searching work.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Isidore String Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00pm

Dey House

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Isidore String Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Frank Conroy Reading Room.

Catie Hickey - Trombone Guest Artist

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Catie Hickey - Trombone Guest Artist

This concert is free and open to the public.

Recital: Luke Gage, Clarinet

Thursday, February 26, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Luke Gage, Clarinet

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

Minnesota Orchestra

Saturday, November 15, 2025 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Rekindling a deep relationship with an outstanding orchestra that began in 1909.

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.