The Key Change series features UI distinguished piano faculty and their students, as well as guest artists from across Iowa. This year's series is: A Prelude to a Fugue.

Each concert in the 6-concert series will be played twice: Once in the Concert Hall of the UI School of Music's Voxman Building in Iowa City, and once at the Opus Cafe in Cedar Rapids. The series is presented in partnership with Orchestra Iowa.

Events

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Key Change: A Prelude to a Fugue. Concert #2

Sunday, October 25, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C major (WTC Book 1), BWV 846

Nikolai Kapustin: Prelude and Fugue in C major, Op. 82

Chieh-Chun (Anna) Chen

Edwin Penhorwood: Toccata (on Prelude in C Major, WTC 1, by J. S. Bach) and Tribute (in memory of Kay Braverman)

Tammie Walker

Alexander Scriabin: Preludes Nos. 1 to 6, Op. 11

Shu-Min (Alice) Chang

Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in D minor, Op. 87

Henry Giles

Intermission

Johann...

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Key Change: A Prelude to a Fugue. Concert #3

Sunday, December 6, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fugue in C minor for two pianos, K. 426

Nuo Chen, Yimu Wang

Ludwig van Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133, for piano four-hands

Hsin-Hui Liu, Yu-Han Kuan

Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, BV 256

Choral-Variationen (Einleitung-Choral und Variationen-Übergang)

Ting-Ting Yang, Yimu Wang, Nuo Chen

Fuga I

Fuga II

Alan Huckleberry, Chieh...

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Key Change: A Prelude to a Fugue. Concert #4

Sunday, February 28, 2027 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D major (WTC Book 2), BWV 874

Hyerin Yang

Felix Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 35

Helen Mao

Nikolai Kapustin: Prelude and Fugue No. 17, Op. 82

Mariya Akhadjanova

Sergei Taneyev: Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, Op. 29

Kelai Yang

Intermission

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903

Nuo Chen

Amy Beach: Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87

John Thomas Morris

Nikolai Kapustin: Preludes in Jazz Style No. 10, Op. 53

Rodion Shchedrin...

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Key Change: A Prelude to a Fugue. Concert #5

Sunday, March 28, 2027 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major (WTC Book 2), BWV 886

Alejandro Jimenez Zapata

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasy and Fugue in C Major, K. 394

Tim Hankewich

Felix Blumenfeld: Preludes Nos. 17, 18, and 19, Op. 17

John Thomas Morris

Claude Debussy: Preludes Des pas sur la neige and Les collines d'Anacapri

Jonathan Bass

Intermission

Johann Sebeastian Bach: Art of the Fugue (Selection), BWV 1080

Henrique Rabelo

Nikolai Kapustin: Preludes in Jazz Style No. 23, Op. 53

Dmitri Shostakovich...

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Key Change: A Prelude to a Fugue. Concert #6

Sunday, April 18, 2027 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Lili Boulanger: Prelude in D-flat Major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major (WTC Book 1), BWV 848

Jun Le

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude No. 5, Op. 32

Jessica Treinen

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Preludes Nos. 1 and 4, Op. 32

Alejandro Zapata

Alexander Scriabin: 7 Preludes, Op. 17

Henrique Rabelo

Intermission

Bach-Rachmaninoff: Prelude, Gavotte, and Gigue from the Partita for Violin in E major

Guoyi Fan

Lisan Wang: Two Pieces from Five Preludes and Fugues Written in Chinese Modes

Danyun Zhao

César...