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
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Part of Hancher's 2026-2027 Season
Co-presented by Hancher Auditorium and The Englert Theatre
A vital duo imbues their acoustic sound with power, beauty, and depth of feeling.
The rich and remarkable careers of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have made them essential pillars of modern acoustic music. That widely acknowledged reality was reinforced when their most recent album, Woodland, won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. Welch describes the music of Woodland as “a swirl of...
Fall Welcome Concert: Sierra Ferrell
This American rock band brings together indie hooks, sprawling improvisation, and driving rhythm to capture the ears of its dedicated and ever-growing fanbase. We invite the campus and community to a fun-filled evening of music by the Iowa River.
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
Part of Hancher's 2026-2027 Season
Presented by Hancher Auditorium
Here’s the way it is: Bruce Hornsby is an iconic and endlessly original musician.
Bruce Hornsby rose to prominence with The Way It Is, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range. An avid collaborator who has work with everyone from Bob Dylan to Bon Iver and from Stevie Nicks to Bonnie Raitt, Hornsby was also a part-time member of the Grateful Dead from September 1990 to March 1992, performing in over 100 concerts. This...
Snarky Puppy
Part of Hancher's 2026-2027 Season
We say this with full sincerity and zero snark: You do not want to miss this band.
Snarky Puppy is five-times Grammy-winning collective drawing from a wide array of influences including funk, rhythm & blues, hard rock, classic soul, modern gospel, new tech, fusion, and jazz. The band isn’t too keen on labels. Snarky Puppy isn’t exactly a jazz band or fusion band or a jam band. The band simply is what it is: a powerhouse music-making wonder that is always pursuing...
Camila Fernández
Event series
Upcoming events for recital attendance
Optional Recital: Hannah Rees, Trombone
Optional Recital: Hannah Rees, Trombone
This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.
This concert is free and open to the public.
Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert and Martin Gelwasser, trombone
Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert and Martin Gelwasser, trombone
This concert is free and open to the public.
Guest Artist: Carlos Betancur, piano
Guest Artist: Carlos Betancur, piano
This concert is free and open to the public.
MA Recital: Evan Tanner, Percussion
MA Recital: Evan Tanner, Percussion
This concert is free and open to the public.
The Music Man
There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...