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

UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Sanctuary Pub

Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session

Jonathan Allen, Trombone Faculty Recital

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Jonathan Allen, Trombone Faculty Recital

This concert is free and open to the public.

Faculty Recital: Ksenia Nosikova, piano

Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building

Faculty Recital: Ksenia Nosikova, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Orchestra Baobab

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

A multi-generation Afro-Cuban band endlessly reinvigorating its sound.

Iowa Percussion Spectacular

Saturday, April 11, 2026 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Iowa Percussion Spectacular

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

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.