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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UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Sanctuary Pub
Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session
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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the fourth 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.

Tyler Hagy, conductor
City High Concert Choir

This concert is free and open to the public.

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University Band

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

University Band

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II

Friday, May 8, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II

This concert is free and open to the public.

Event series

Upcoming events for recital attendance

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Optional Recital: Nathan Ortiz, percussion

Sunday, February 8, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Nathan Ortiz, percussion

Nathan Ortiz, percussion
Drew Hansen, percussion
Ava Chopskie, percussion
Peyton Flynn, percussion
Shaun Everson, percussion

This event is free and open to the public.

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #4

Sunday, February 8, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #4

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa Percussion Arts Share Concert

Saturday, February 14, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Percussion Arts Share Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

This concert is free and open to the public.

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UI Symphony Orchestra

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

A concert bringing composers and musicians together.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform music 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. 142, written for and performed by UI Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Kenneth Tse.

Conducted by Kenny Lee.

This concert will be livestreamed here: https:/...