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
Faculty Chamber Recital: Piano Sextets
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 7:30pm
Faculty Chamber Recital: Piano SextetsThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.
Peter Steiner and Constanze Wartner Guest Artist Recital
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 7:30pm
Peter Steiner and Constanze Wartner Guest Artist RecitalThis event is free and open to the public.
An Evening with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 7:30pm
Part of Hancher's 53rd seasonOne of our most movingly powerful storytellers returns to Hancher to share his truths.Jason Isbell and his stellar band sold out in a blink ahead of their 2023 Hancher performance. It is no wonder, because this is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, and then miraculously reducing a universe to four minutes of deeply resonant music.“Jason Isbell is, it goes without saying, one of the shining...
Jazz Repertory Ensemble
Friday, March 6, 2026 7:30pm
Jazz Repertory EnsembleThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.
The Joffrey Ballet
Saturday, March 7, 2026 7:30pm
American IconsPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonWitness the daring and enduring spirit that defines The Joffrey's maverick legacy.Hancher’s favorite dance company returns to Iowa City for the first time in 10 years! American Icons celebrates dynamic works by four trailblazing artists of the 20th century: The Joffrey Ballet co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, Joffrey alum Glen Tetley, and prolific dance pioneer Martha Graham. The Joffrey dancers will also work with University of Iowa dance...
Event series
Upcoming events for recital attendance
Kola Owolabi, guest organist
Sunday, October 5, 2025 3:00pm
Kola Owolabi, guest organistSponsored by the Iowa City Early Keyboard SocietyThis concert is free and open to the public.
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 1: From Polarity to Plurality
Monday, October 6, 2025 7:30pm
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 1: From Polarity to PluralityProfessor Matthew Arndt emcees the first 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...
Guest Oboe Recital: Dr. William McMullen, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Monday, October 6, 2025 7:30pm
Guest Oboe Recital: Dr. William McMullen, University of Nebraska – LincolnWilliam McMullen, oboeCatherine Herbener, pianoThis concert is free and open to the public.
Canceled
Harlem Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 1:00pm
TICKETSFree and open to the public, no ticket requiredPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonThe Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Harlem Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House in the Frank Conroy Reading Room. This event is free and open to the public with limited seating capacity.Harlem Quartet is a New York-based, award-winning ensemble engaged in a week-long residency at the University...
Jazz Repertory Ensemble
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 7:30pm
Jazz Repertory EnsembleThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.