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

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #2

Sunday, October 26, 2025 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #2

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

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/951323

This concert is free and open to the public.

Disney's Moana

Sunday, October 26, 2025 6:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

Your family doesn’t have to go far to embark on a quest with an intrepid chosen one.

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

Monday, October 27, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

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

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the second of seven presentations of an 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.

There will be a première screening of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by...

Senior Recital: Jonathon Hughes, horn

Monday, October 27, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Jonathon Hughes, horn

This concert is free and open to the public.

Kenny Lee, Cello | Crumb x Tan Dun

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Kenny Lee, Cello | Crumb x Tan Dun

Featuring:

Kenny Lee, Cello

Nicole Esposito, Flute

Doreen Lee, Piano

with Seamless Percussion:

Miles Bohlman, Eva Chopskie, Shaun Everson, Evan Tanner

Join us for an evening of works by two pioneers of 20th-century classical music, George Crumb and Tan Dun! The program will feature Crumb’s breathtaking Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) and conclude with the Dun's raucous and gripping Elegy: Snow in June, Concerto for Cello and Four Percussion.

This concert will be...