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

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Owls

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
You’d be wise to enjoy this performance by an unusual and exceptional quartet.
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UI Cello Studio Recital

Saturday, December 5, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

University of Iowa Cello Studio Recital.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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Band Extravaganza

Sunday, December 6, 2026 3:00pm
Xtream Arena

Get Ready for the BOOM at Iowa’s Biggest Band Event!

Join us for the 57th Annual Band Extravaganza — an unforgettable afternoon of music, spirit, and Hawkeye tradition featuring the University of Iowa Symphony Band, Johnson County Landmark, the Hawkeye Marching Band with the Hawkeye Golden Girl and Drum Major, the Iowa Spirit Squads, and Herky the Hawk.

We're also proud to welcome our special guest band, the Marching Lions from Linn-Mar High School.

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Dunn Quartet Recital

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Luis Infante Hernandez, and Sejin Byun, violins
Jessica Baker, viola
Alejandro Salazar Fernandez, cello

This concert is free and open to the public. Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Saturday, March 6, 2027 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Kenny Lee, Cello
Ilia Radoslavov, PianoKenny Lee, Director of Orchestral Studies, and guest pianist Ilia Radoslavov of Illinois Wesleyan University present an evening featuring the complete sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms, with the addition of the composer's First Violin Sonata.Program:
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 78 (originally for violin and piano)
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via...

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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Ensemble Chamarré: Quartet for the End of Time Quartet for a New Tomorrow: Messiaen and Stephenson

Thursday, August 27, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty and Guest Recital: Ensemble Chamarré
Katie Wolfe, violin
Catherine Hudgins, clarinet
Vytas Baksys, piano
William Rounds, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Piano Duet: Huckleberry, Lecuona

Friday, September 11, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Performance: Piano Duet

Dr. Alan Huckleberry

Dr. Réne Lecuona

This concert is free and open to the public. Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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24+24 Composers Concert

Sunday, September 13, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public. Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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

Monday, September 14, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the fifth of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics that explains every kind of musical sign in our universe. The focus is on semes, or musical resemblances. There will be a première screening of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by Media Productions Workshop. The program then features the premières of two works for oboe, performed by Dr. David Cyzak. The first is a...

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The American Brass Quintet

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Tiago Linck, trumpet

Brandon Ridenour, trumpet

Eric Reed, horn

Hillary Simms, trombone

John Rojack, bass trombone

This concert is free and open to the public.