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

Senior Recital: Matt Sleep, tuba

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Senior Recital: Matt Sleep, tuba This concert is free and open to the public.
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Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, piano

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, pianoThe University of Iowa String Quarter Residency Program presents the Ariel Quarter with Orion Weiss, piano.The Ariel Quartet and Orion Weiss concert and residency has been supported in part by generous support from the Barbara Price Piano and Chamber Music Fund. Learn more about the performers here:https://www.arielquartet.com/https://www.orionweiss.com/This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.View the...

DMA Qualifying Recital: Eric Luminais, flute

Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA Qualifying Recital: Eric Luminais, flute Eric Luminais- Flute Miles Bohlman- Marimba This concert is free and open to the public.
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Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery

Thursday, April 24, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
TICKETS // SOLD OUTTickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m.Adults $30 / $20Students & Youth $10Part of Hancher's 52nd SeasonFeaturing a Hancher co-commissionIt's a superstar team-up as a Hancher-favorite ensemble is joined by our composer-in-residence. The second opportunity of the season to experience Third Coast Percussion (performs with Twyla Tharp Dance) and Jessie Montgomery (performs with PUBLIQuartet), and our 2024–2025 composer-in-residence. The dynamic program...
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Ariel Quartet

Friday, April 25, 2025 12:00pm
Dey House
This concert is free and open to the public. The Ariel Quartet and Orion Weiss concert and residency has been supported in part by generous support from the Barbara Price Piano and Chamber Music Fund.Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel...

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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Davóne Tines Recital No. 1: MASS

Saturday, April 19, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
TICKETSTickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m.Adults $30 / $20Students & Youth $10Part of Hancher's 52nd SeasonAmerican bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity. In Recital No. 1: MASS, Tines offers a program of...
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Center for New Music Ensemble Concert IV, feat. Gregory Rowland Evans

Sunday, April 20, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Center for New Music Ensemble Concert IVThis concert features "Alu," a new composition by Gregory Rowland Evans (2024 PhD), and is part of #NewWorkCity, the spring initiative by Performing Arts At Iowa to highlight new work created by our talented graduate students in the performing arts. Join us as we celebrate the energy and creativity that crackles across this performing arts community.Alu (2025)Alu - The title word "Alu" is a somewhat gnomic term found on a variety of runestones. While a...

University Band

Monday, April 21, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
University Band M. Cory Schmitt, conductor Jarrid Jaynes and Courtney Ridge, guest conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943870 This concert is free and open to the public.

DMA I Recital: Chris Hunley, saxophone

Monday, April 21, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA I Recital: Chris Hunley, saxophone Chris Hunley, saxophone Casey Dierlam Tse, piano This concert is free and open to the public.

DMA II Recital: Thomas Drummond, saxophone

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA II Recital: Thomas Drummond, saxophone Thomas Drummond, saxophone Casey Dierlam Tse, piano Charlotte Leung-Brown, saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.