Music Professor Elizabeth Oakes, director of the University ofIowa String Quartet Residency Program, was one of nine faculty members to receive the Arts and Humanities Initiative, or AHI, award during the last award cycle.

Jayda Hunstad, a music therapy graduate student, uses music therapy to help patients manage pain.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang is a 1980 Composition grad from the University of Iowa School of Music.

David Lang’s “the wealth of nations,” written for the 250th anniversary of the United States, premiered at the NY Philharmonic on March 20. A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Lang is a 1980 Composition grad from the University of Iowa School of Music.

Ryan Haynes, an elementary music teacher at Austin Public Schools and 2002 graduate of the UI Music Education program, has received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award for the 2025-2026 cycle from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

University of Iowa student musicians Antonio Ferraro and Kian Hyatt are quoted in the article. The concert was attended by approximately 1,400 local eighth graders, mostly from North Central Middle School, Northwest Middle School, and Southeast Middle School.