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

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music--A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes promotional image

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music--A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Monday, January 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of 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.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis promotional image

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Thursday, January 29, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Wynton Marsalis and his eminent ensemble return with an inspired Ellington program.

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Saturday, January 31, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Duo Battuto: Nick Miller and Hanna Rumora

Nick Miller, percussion
Hanna Rumora, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

Recital: Henry Wolf, piano

Saturday, January 31, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Henry Wolf, piano

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio

Saturday, January 31, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Chamber Recital: Neave Trio

Anna Williams, violin
Mikhail Veselov, cello
Eri Nakamura, piano

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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UI Symphony Orchestra with Liebermann & Kahane

Friday, February 20, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

A concert bringing composers and musicians together.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform a suite of murder ballads by Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane—and Kahane himself will join the ensemble. In addition, composer Lowell Liebermann will be in attendance to experience the U.S. premiere of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Op. 145, written for and performed by UI Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Kenneth Tse, during the first half of the program.

Conducted by...

Symphony Band Showcase Concert promotional image

Symphony Band Showcase Concert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Symphony Band Showcase Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies promotional image

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Saturday, February 21, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violin
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello

The Del Sol Quartet residency is a UI String Quartet Residency Program / Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/ Obermann Center for Advanced Studies collaboration with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Endowment Fund

delsolquartet.com

This concert is free and open to the public, and sponsored in part by...

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert promotional image

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

Sunday, February 22, 2026 1:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/

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

This concert is free and open to the public.