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Dec 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Dec 4, 2024
5:30 PM
DMA I Recital: Henrique Rabelo, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31203 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 4, 2024
7:00 PM
Jazz Combos from the UI School of Music performing in a club setting.
Dec 4, 2024
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $30 / $20 Students and youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program and Center for New Music The venturous quartet follows up last year’s John Zorn concert with music by John Luther Adams and Elliott Carter. The members of JACK Quartet — champions of contemporary music and musicians of prodigious talent — return to play compositions by two towering giants. John Luther Adams — whose work I...
Dec 5, 2024
7:00 PM
Concert featuring the BPM Ensemble under the direction of professor William Menefield. Jazz, R&B, Hip Hop, Funk, Neo Soul and more! Co-sponsored by the UI School of Music and the UI African American Studies Program. Doors 6 p.m. / Show 7 p.m. $5 cover / $3 students / $15 tables
Dec 5, 2024
7:30 PM
Faculty Chamber Concert: Ksenia Nosikova and Doreen Lee, Piano Duo This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
12:00 PM
Eine Kleine Lunch Music This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Iowa Saxophonists' Workshop Fall Concert The saxophone students of Dr. Kenneth Tse will perform in saxophone ensembles and other chamber settings. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31205 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra - featuring Student Conductors Samuel Chen, Matthew Clarke, and Joey Sun, DMA Student Conductors. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31206 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
7:30 PM
TICKETS Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post, Dear Evan Hansen is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look — from the point of view of both the parents and young people — at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives. Please note: Dear Evan Hansen is recommended for ages 12 and up and contains adu...
Dec 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Joe Shanks This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Hugo Kaut, violin Hugo Kaut, violin Danyun Zhao, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 6, 2024
8:00 PM
The Writers' Workshop presents visiting instructors Abby Geni and Anthony Cody. To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.
Dec 7, 2024
11:00 AM
Please join us from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Claudia McGehee's Iowa River Frost Fair (an event in name inspired by medieval artisan fairs held on the frozen river Thames in London, home to Claudia’s ancestors!). Iowa City based Illustrator/Author Claudia will sign her new 2025 Engagement Calendar “Dwelling," copies of her beloved illustrated books (including her band new picture book Counting Winter), and we will have lots of her new holiday prints on hand! Claudia McGehee is a local artist a...
Dec 7, 2024
12:00 PM
UISO Concerto/Aria Competition Final Round This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 7, 2024
2:00 PM
TICKETS Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post, Dear Evan Hansen is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look — from the point of view of both the parents and young people — at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives. Please note: Dear Evan Hansen is recommended for ages 12 and up and contains adu...
Dec 7, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Join us for an engaging conversation featuring Gil Vazquez, Executive Director of the Keith Haring Foundation, and Brad Gooch, acclaimed author of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring. This insightful discussion will be facilitated by Diana Tuite, curator of the exhibition To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City. The conversation will include insights into Keith Haring’s life, work, and activism; the process of writing Haring’s biography; and explore how Haring’s work contin...
Dec 7, 2024
2:00 PM
Old Brick
Iowa Hawkapellas Winter concert This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 7, 2024
2:00 PM
Stop in at Prairie Lights between 2 and 4 p.m. on Saturday Dec. 7! Iowa City photographer Marybeth Slonneger will be here to sign copies of her latest two volumes of Iowa City photographs, What Was – What Remains: A Celebration of Iowa City’s Domestic Architecture (Parts One and Two). These compact paperback volumes are fascinating to look at and read through and will be a popular holiday gift for anyone with an appreciation for Iowa City! What Was – What Remains (Parts One and Two) contain...
Dec 7, 2024
5:30 PM
DMA Qualifying Recital: Guoyi Fan, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31207 This is free and open to the public.
Dec 7, 2024
5:30 PM
DMA Cello Recital: Christina Leigh Stephenson Christina Leigh Stephenson-Cello Mariya Akhadjanova-Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 7, 2024
7:30 PM
TICKETS Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post, Dear Evan Hansen is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look — from the point of view of both the parents and young people — at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives. Please note: Dear Evan Hansen is recommended for ages 12 and up and contains adu...
Dec 8, 2024
11:00 AM
The Family Bach - Nicole Esposito and the UIOWA Flute Studio This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31208 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 8, 2024
1:30 PM
Optional Sophomore Recital: Madi Bruck, mezzo-soprano Madi Bruck, mezzo-soprano Wonkyung Kim, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for our annual Holiday Concert in partnership with the UI Musical Theater Department as they spread the joy of musical theater and song across campus. This concert is free and open to all. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dec 8, 2024
2:00 PM
TICKETS Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post, Dear Evan Hansen is the first musical to take a groundbreaking look — from the point of view of both the parents and young people — at our complex, interconnected, and social media-filled lives. Please note: Dear Evan Hansen is recommended for ages 12 and up and contains adu...
Dec 8, 2024
3:00 PM
Xtream Arena
Band Extravaganza Get ready for the BOOM at the biggest band event in Iowa! Featuring the Iowa Symphony Band; Johnson County Landmark; and the Hawkeye Marching Band with the Hawkeye Golden Girl, Drum Major, Iowa Spirit Squads, Dance Team, and Herky–along with our special guest, the Band of Blue Marching Band from Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids. Tickets: Adults $17 Youth/Seniors $13 UI Students $5 For youth groups of 20+, please call 319-335-1635 to request a group rate of $10....
Dec 8, 2024
3:00 PM
Voxman Chorale and Camerata Singers Concert Katelyn Peterson (VC) and Andrew Robinson (CS), graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31210 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 8, 2024
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble II 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/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31211 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 9, 2024
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: James Pelini, euphonium This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 9, 2024
7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: The Long Way Home: Dan Moore Album Release Concert Dan Moore and Friends View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31213 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 10, 2024
5:30 PM
DMA III Recital: Lingxiao Li, saxophone Lingxiao Li, soprano and alto saxophone Casey Dierlam Tse, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 10, 2024
7:30 PM
Dunn Graduate String Quartet Fall Recital Renee Santos, violin Luis Enrique Infante Hernandez, violin Kylie Little, viola Christina Leigh Stephenson, cello This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 11, 2024
5:30 PM
DMA I Recital: Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute Casey Dierlam Tse, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 11, 2024
7:30 PM
Campus Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31214 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 12, 2024
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join students of ARTH3250: Brushwork in Chinese Art in exploring ink art in the Stanley Museum of Art collection. Led by Amy Huang, Assistant Professor of Art History, class members will share short presentations and host the exhibition open house. 5:30–6 p.m. presentations 6–7:30 p.m. open house
Dec 12, 2024
7:30 PM
UI Double Bass Studio Recital Members of the Double Bass studio, lead by Professor Volkan Orhon, will perform. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31215 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 12, 2024
7:30 PM
Clarinet Studio Recital Members of the University of Iowa Clarinet Studio will be performing. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31216 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 12, 2024
8:00 PM
Grad/Undergrad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Dec 13, 2024
11:00 AM
Join the Heavenly Hawkeyes Choir on Friday, Dec. 13 at 11 a.m. for a concert in Stark Opera Studio in Voxman Music Building. The concert is open to the public, and we hope to see our students’ families, friends and staff of Music Therapy and UI REACH in attendance.
Dec 13, 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Exhibits from UICB studio classes in lettering arts, papermaking, bookbinding, artist books, and letterpress printing will be on display. UICB Faculty work will be on display in the K.K. Merker Gallery. Food and drink will be served — all are welcome!
Dec 13, 2024
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31217 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 13, 2024
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Jinah Yoo Knapp, organ This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31218
Dec 13, 2024
8:00 PM
Grad/Undergrad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Dec 14, 2024
11:30 AM
Voice for Non-Majors Studio Recital This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31219
Dec 14, 2024
3:00 PM
Holiday Percussion Pops Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31220 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 14, 2024
3:30 PM
Intersection A Capella This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31222
Dec 14, 2024
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31223 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 14, 2024
7:30 PM
DMA II Recital: Yu-Hsiang (Abby) Chen, organ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31224 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 14, 2024
8:00 PM
Grad/Undergrad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Dec 15, 2024
11:30 AM
Phi My Alpha Winter Recital This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 15, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...
Dec 15, 2024
3:00 PM
Holiday Brass - Ensemble Concert View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31225 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 15, 2024
3:00 PM - 3:35 PM
Audiences of all ages will delight in this free and festive event on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 3 p.m. at Space Place Theater. Upper-level youth Ensemble dancers and students dance to Tchaikovsky’s perennial classics, woven together with Jan Brett’s children's book, The Nutcracker! Runtime: approximately 35 minutes. This event is free and open to the public. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who re...
Dec 15, 2024
6:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $40 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A vocalist for the ages keeps pushing jazz forward while a masterful improviser underscores the adventure. Like jazz itself, Cécile McLorin Salvant is always exploring and charting new paths. A vocalist of startling gifts, she seems to unveil some new facet of her artistry with each project and collaboration. Her work wi...
Dec 15, 2024
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Oz Braslavsky, violin This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31226 This concert is free and open to the public.
Dec 15, 2024
7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: David Cyzak, oboe This concert is free and open to the public. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31227
Dec 15, 2024
8:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $40 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A vocalist for the ages keeps pushing jazz forward while a masterful improviser underscores the adventure. Like jazz itself, Cécile McLorin Salvant is always exploring and charting new paths. A vocalist of startling gifts, she seems to unveil some new facet of her artistry with each project and collaboration. Her work wi...
Dec 17, 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
Dec 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
Dec 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
Dec 22, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for an informal, guided tour of the Stanley Museum of Art. Our team of docents will lead you through the galleries, exploring highlights from our diverse collection. Perfect for small groups or walk-in visitors, this tour offers a flexible and engaging way to learn about the collection. No reservations required. Simply drop in and join us for an hour of art appreciation, but note that space is limited.
Jan 22, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Solo Recital: Catherine Kautsky, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Jan 24, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter A...
Jan 25, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter A...
Jan 25, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter A...
Jan 26, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter A...
Jan 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: "This Floating World"- Nicole Esposito, flute; Réne Lecuona, piano Nicole Esposito, flute Réne Lecuona, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Jan 29, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $85 / $65 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season A master choreographer’s acclaimed Hancher-commissioned work is part of the 60th anniversary celebration. In 1999, the American premiere of Twyla Tharp’s Diabelli — choreographed to Beethoven’s thorny and thrilling Diabelli Variations and commissioned by Hancher — took place on the stage of the original Hancher Auditorium. Now, as part of the 60th anniversary tour of Twyla Tharp Dance, the work returns home so ...
Jan 31, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher Steeped in history, a first-rate storyteller offers music that is sometimes urgent and sometimes playful. Leyla McCalla’s music — including her latest record, Sun Without the Heat — is a potent amalgam of history and mastery. That history includes three centuries of influences from all around the world, while the mastery...
Jan 31, 2025
8:00 PM
Day Fades Into Night By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was seven and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a new maid is hired, who just so happens ...
Jan 31, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher Steeped in history, a first-rate storyteller offers music that is sometimes urgent and sometimes playful. Leyla McCalla’s music — including her latest record, Sun Without the Heat — is a potent amalgam of history and mastery. That history includes three centuries of influences from all around the world, while the mastery...
Feb 1, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher When it comes to passionate innovators pushing music in new directions, this artist is chief among them. Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah contains multitudes. “[J]ust because it can be said that my work is inherently jazz does not mean that it is exclusively jazz,” the musician has posited. Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, he ...
Feb 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Masters Recital: Lauren Kundel, soprano Lauren Kundel, Soprano Katie Fang, Piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 1, 2025
8:00 PM
Day Fades Into Night By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was seven and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a new maid is hired, who just so happens ...
Feb 1, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher When it comes to passionate innovators pushing music in new directions, this artist is chief among them. Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah contains multitudes. “[J]ust because it can be said that my work is inherently jazz does not mean that it is exclusively jazz,” the musician has posited. Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, he ...
Feb 3, 2025
7:30 PM
DMA I Recital: Danyun Zhao, piano This is free and open to the public.
Feb 4, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Feb 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 8, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Top-flight musicians — each a Hancher favorite — perform a perfect program for piano and clarinet. Emanuel Ax — one of the world’s most revered musicians — has been performing for Hancher audiences since he was a Young Concert Artist. How deep is the relationship? When Hancher needed a new piano for our new facility, we turned to Manny ...
Feb 8, 2025
7:30 PM
"Amore": DesChamps Studio Voice Recital Élise DesChamps, mezzo-soprano; Kate O’Connell, soprano; Foo Chen Gui, tenor; Elizabeth Cerrito, soprano; Lauren Kundel, soprano; Tatum Calderwood, soprano; Finley McVay, soprano; Nathan Brow, tenor; Jesse Reeds, tenor; Rai Martin, tenor; Derek Thorn, tenor; Sarah Hachtman, soprano; Sophie Good, soprano This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 9, 2025
5:30 PM
Master's Recital: Matthew Dulas, euphonium This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. All week, we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on the floor in front of their favorite artworks--sho...
Feb 12, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. All week, we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on the floor in front of their favorite artworks--sho...
Feb 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. All week, we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on the floor in front of their favorite artworks--sho...
Feb 13, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students and youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Creative Matters, a program of the Office of the Vice President for Research, presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa School of Music with support from the Larry G. and Ann Howard Jones Vocal Ensemble Residency Program A stirring work by a UI alum — sung by a peerless choir — asks what the words we speak in prayer say about us. The Crossing, an acclaimed 18-voice choir, will be in residence a...
Feb 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. This month, we're celebrating Valentine's Day for a whole week! We're giving students the chance to show what artworks they love in our galleries, as well as the opportunity to make their own art. All week, we'll have paper hearts available at the front desk for students to leave on the floor in front of their favorite artworks--sho...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Grown Backwards Written and Directed By James Gulden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, 8 p.m. EFFECT: 1976, The world is forever changed, and a scientist named Emmett's life is turned backwards. CAUSE: 1972, Emmett's family life is on the verge of collapse. He then discovers that time flows against our perception; effect precedes cause. Please be advised that this show contains strong language, derogatory terms, dis...
Feb 15, 2025
3:00 PM
Iowa Percussion: Arts Share Community Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 15, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A world of musical influences and ideas come together in this vocalist’s combo of style and substance. A teenaged Cyrille Aimée used to sneak out of her bedroom window to mingle with the jazzers performing at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine, France. Since then, she has perfected the intermingling of a h...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa Directors Festival This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates. Far Away By Caryl Churchill Directed by Meredith G. Healy Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted. Far Away is presented by arrangement with Conco...
Feb 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Grown Backwards Written and Directed By James Gulden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, 8 p.m. EFFECT: 1976, The world is forever changed, and a scientist named Emmett's life is turned backwards. CAUSE: 1972, Emmett's family life is on the verge of collapse. He then discovers that time flows against our perception; effect precedes cause. Please be advised that this show contains strong language, derogatory terms, dis...
Feb 15, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A world of musical influences and ideas come together in this vocalist’s combo of style and substance. A teenaged Cyrille Aimée used to sneak out of her bedroom window to mingle with the jazzers performing at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine, France. Since then, she has perfected the intermingling of a h...
Feb 16, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 16, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Presented in collaboration with University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program The Schumann Quartet relishes the connection between artists and audiences. “A work really develops only in a live performance,” the members of the German quartet say. “That is ‘the real thing,’ because we ourselves never know what will happen. On the st...
Feb 19, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 20, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A regular at the comedy clubs of Los Angeles and New York City, a comic adds Club Hancher to her list. Zainab Johnson’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped as she was growing up in Harlem as one of 13 siblings in a black Muslim family. Johnson’s first special, Hijabs Off, premiered on Amazon Pri...
Feb 20, 2025
7:30 PM
Optional Recital: Natalie Roth, trumpet This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 20, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival Directed by Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers
Feb 21, 2025
7:00 PM
The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a reading with Dodie Bellamy, NWP Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of numerous books including When the Sick Rule the World. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. for the reading, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.
Feb 21, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival Directed by Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers
Feb 22, 2025
6:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $50 Students & Youth $10 (includes the performances and a catered dinner) Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Presented in collaboration with Feed Me Weird Things Hancher and Feed Me Weird Things present a totally unique evening of music and food. Witness two distinct sets of music that track Chicago's broad and visonary jazz tradition; in between musicals sets, the audience will enjoy a community di...
Feb 22, 2025
6:30 PM
UI School of Music Showcase Concert - Iowa Symphony Band & Concert Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 22, 2025
8:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival Directed by Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers
Feb 23, 2025
1:30 PM
Iowa Honor Band Concert This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 23, 2025
2:00 PM
Ten-Minute Play Festival Directed by Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers
Feb 23, 2025
7:30 PM
Composers' Workshop 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 25, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a reading and discussion, co-sponsored by Prairie Lights, to celebrate recent works from Brady G’Sell and Meena Khandelwal, faculty in the University of Iowa Department of Anthropology and the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program. After the reading, Elana Buch, associate professor of anthropology, will join G’Sell and Khandelwal for a conversation and Q&A with the audience. Light refreshments will follow. 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubu...
Feb 27, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet Lydia van Dreel, Wagner tuba Leander Staff, Wagner tuba Maddy Tarantelli, Wagner tuba Ann Ellsworth, Wagner tuba Kyra Sims, Wagner tuba This concert is free and open to the public.
Feb 28, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Reframing the boxing ring as a site for a duet rather than a duel, Touch of RED bring vulnerability to the fore. Shamel Pitts — a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography — founded the multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE in 2019. Touch of RED is the beautiful new entry in Pitts’s and TRIBE’s ongoing Red Series, which explores Black multiplicity and human connection. Touch of RED is a duet for Black men who come toge...
Feb 28, 2025
8:00 PM
THE INDOCTRINATION OF BANANAS By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit—a banana—their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, religio...
Mar 1, 2025
11:30 AM
DMA III Recital: McKenna Blenk, percussion Anabel Perez-Brennan, percussion Ava Chopskie, percussion Jenna Springer, percussion This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Larissa Myers, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Ben Copeland, trombone This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA III Recital: R. Nathan Brown, tenor R. Nathan Brown, tenor Halie Augustus, piano Lily Schloss, soprano Presley Pritchett Peterson, soprano Allison Wright, mezzo-soprano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Johnson County Landmark This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 1, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Reframing the boxing ring as a site for a duet rather than a duel, Touch of RED bring vulnerability to the fore. Shamel Pitts — a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography — founded the multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE in 2019. Touch of RED is the beautiful new entry in Pitts’s and TRIBE’s ongoing Red Series, which explores Black multiplicity and human connection. Touch of RED is a duet for Black men who come toge...
Mar 1, 2025
8:00 PM
THE INDOCTRINATION OF BANANAS By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit—a banana—their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, religio...
Mar 2, 2025
1:30 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, 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.
Mar 2, 2025
2:00 PM
THE INDOCTRINATION OF BANANAS By Søren Olsen Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025, 8 p.m. When two groups of humanoids stumble upon a delightful fruit—a banana—their lives genuinely seem to improve. However, one group’s obsession with this newfound fruit soon overtakes their intellect. What began as one of life’s simple joys is sucked into a vacuum of “rights and wrongs.” Rituals form, religio...
Mar 2, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Ani Perez-Brennan, percussion This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Black Pop Music Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 4, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Mar 5, 2025
7:30 PM
Telegraph Quartet The University of Iowa String Quarter Residency Program presents the Telegraph Quartet. Learn more about the Telegraph Quartet here: https://www.telegraphquartet.com/ This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 7, 2025
7:30 PM
Kantorei Concert: Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 7, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 8, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 8, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Madison Brady, cello Madison Brady, cello Adeleine Hitchman, cello This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
5:30 PM
Masters Recital: Rebekah Webster, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Honors Recital: Sara Sample, clarinet This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 9, 2025
1:30 PM
Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol Piano Sundays returns for the 2024-25 season! The University of Iowa School of Music, in partnership with the Old Capitol Museum and West Music, is proud to host this annual tradition. Performances will be held in the beautiful Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber this year, performed on their historic, rebuilt Steinway grand piano “Rose.” This is an incredible opportunity for the community to see and hear the university’s talented piano students and faculty in...
Mar 9, 2025
2:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 9, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), and original director and choreographer Cas...
Mar 9, 2025
3:00 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Salley Koo, violin; and Alexander Solomon, piano Salley Koo - violin Alexander Solomon - piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble IV 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 10, 2025
7:30 PM
Jazz Repertory Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: Avita Duo: Ksenia Nosikova, piano; and Katya Moeller, violin This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 11, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Adults $95 / $75 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season The company that carries forward the name of master modern dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey is — to put it simply — simply breathtaking. Whether performing work by today’s most innovative choreographers or performing work by its founder — including the timelessly relevant and breathtaking Revelations — the dancers seem to shimmer with passion, skill, and the pride of a tradition rivaled by few other compani...
Mar 13, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for another installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for students that occur on Thursday nights, when the museum is open late. In honor of Women’s History Month, we're hosting a collage night this month! We will provide copies of historical materials to pick through, along with journals to work in. If you're already an avid journaler (or junk-journaler), you are welcomed to bring your own journal or paper goods you would like to work on! Students are welcome t...
Mar 13, 2025
5:30 PM
Joint Recital - Music by Female Composers Cécile Chaminade - Six Pièces Romantiques Op. 55 for piano four hands Yi Chen - Memory, for solo flute Yuko Uébayash - Flute Sonata, mvmts I and IV This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 13, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 14, 2025
5:00 PM
Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day wil...
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Side Show Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Henry Krieger Vocal and Dance Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler Directed by Paul Kalina Daisy and Violet Hilton, a pair of conjoined twins, have lived their lives in the spotlight, excelling from Freak Show oddities to Vaudeville stars. As the sisters struggle to navigate their new path beyond the Freak Show, Daisy and Violet face outside forces and new desires that threaten to tear them apart — figuratively ...
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Death Surrogates By Cianon Jones Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Mar. 13, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14, 2025, 8 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 15, 2025, 2 p.m. Another tale: of stories & dreams; of reclamation & power; of existence & healing. Tickets: Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
Mar 15, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis II Concert – Katelyn Perez, Mariana Tejeda, and Joshua Culbreath Joshua Culbreath will be performing on Friday, March 14. Thursday, March 13 and Saturday, March 15 will feature works by Katelyn Perez and Mariana Tejeda. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 26, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Symphony Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 27, 2025
6:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Intensity and refinement are hallmarks of one of the world’s most electrifying string quartets. Adept at balancing individual expression with respectful renderings of a composer’s work, the Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dimitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will pe...
Mar 27, 2025
8:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Intensity and refinement are hallmarks of one of the world’s most electrifying string quartets. Adept at balancing individual expression with respectful renderings of a composer’s work, the Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dimitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will pe...
Mar 28, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season In cooperation with Riverside Theatre & the Englert Theatre Written by August Wilson and directed by Lili-Anne Brown. The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division ...
Mar 28, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis III Concert – Emily Culbreath All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 29, 2025
3:00 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, Concert #5 This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
7:30 PM
The Englert, Auditorium Seating
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $25 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season In cooperation with Riverside Theatre & the Englert Theatre Written by William Shakespeare, adapted by Christina Anderson, and directed by Devin Brain The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first gradua...
Mar 29, 2025
7:30 PM
Cello Dayz Concert This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 29, 2025
8:00 PM
Thesis III Concert – Emily Culbreath All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Mar 30, 2025
1:00 PM
Performing Arts at Iowa's Donor Recognition Performance This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 30, 2025
5:00 PM
University Choir Concert: Dr. David Puderbaugh, conductor This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Mar 31, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 1, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
Apr 1, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Free tickets (limit two) will be available from the Hancher Box Office beginning March 3 at 10 a.m. Part of the Levitt Lecture Series Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for NPR and a contributor to Fox News Channel. She joined Fox in 1997 and serves as a panelist on Special Report with Brett Baier and Fox News Sunday, Fox Broadcasting Company's public affairs program that airs nationwide each Sunday morning. Liasson joined NPR in ...
Apr 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Artist Recital: Yu Tamaki Hoso, trombone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Live Fieldwork in Astromusicology This concert is free and open to the public. Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and improviser. He is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. His scholarship appears in Jazz and Culture, Anthropology in Action, Jazz Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, among other venues. As an artis...
Apr 5, 2025
3:00 PM
Iowa Percussion Spectacular This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 6, 2025
1:30 PM
Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol Piano Sundays returns for the 2024-25 season! The University of Iowa School of Music, in partnership with the Old Capitol Museum and West Music, is proud to host this annual tradition. Performances will be held in the beautiful Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber this year, performed on their historic, rebuilt Steinway grand piano “Rose.” This is an incredible opportunity for the community to see and hear the university’s talented piano students and faculty in...
Apr 7, 2025
7:30 PM
Faculty Chamber Concert: Sanders, Rutledge, Arnone, and Lee Jeremiah Sanders, baritone Christine Rutledge, viola Anthony Arnone, cello Doreen Lee, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Guest Chamber Recital: Akropolis Reed Quintet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 9, 2025
5:00 PM
Obermann Center Working Groups provide space, structure, and discretionary funding ($500 per year for 3 years) for groups led by faculty that may include advanced graduate students, staff members, and community members with a shared intellectual interest. Groups have used this opportunity to explore new work and to share their own research, to organize a symposium, and to develop grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at ...
Apr 10, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A Grammy Award-winning artist with a one-of-a-kind sound — whether she is singing in English or Spanish. When Gaby Moreno finished singing at the Premiere Ceremony of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, host Justin Tranter had this to say: “Guys, that’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. Her voice is so beaut...
Apr 10, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A Grammy Award-winning artist with a one-of-a-kind sound — whether she is singing in English or Spanish. When Gaby Moreno finished singing at the Premiere Ceremony of the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, host Justin Tranter had this to say: “Guys, that’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. Her voice is so beaut...
Apr 11, 2025
7:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A first-call pianist for Wynton and Branford Marsalis takes audiences to the American south via his insistent groove. When we get a text from Branford Marsalis, we pay attention. And when it comes to one of his favorite pianists working today, he told us: “Sean Mason: The real deal. Finally a concept based on actual musi...
Apr 11, 2025
7:30 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 11, 2025
9:00 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Part of Club Hancher A first-call pianist for Wynton and Branford Marsalis takes audiences to the American south via his insistent groove. When we get a text from Branford Marsalis, we pay attention. And when it comes to one of his favorite pianists working today, he told us: “Sean Mason: The real deal. Finally a concept based on actual musi...
Apr 12, 2025
5:00 PM
Thesis IV Concert – Sophia McLaughlin This performance is free and open to the public. Rain date is April 13 at 5 p.m.
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 12, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Lauren Carley, oboe This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 13, 2025
2:00 PM
Rita / La colombe Rita by Gaetano Donizetti and La colombe by Charles Gounod Directed by Abbigail Coté Conducted by Kenny Lee The 2024-2025 opera season will close with a spring production of French One Acts: La colombe and Rita. These obscure yet treasured pieces have enjoyed a recent resurgence in the opera canon. Gounod’s sparkling score accompanies a farcical tale of seduction, while Donizetti’s Rita takes a darkly comic look at power dynamics in relationships. Tickets: Adult - $2...
Apr 13, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m. Adults $65 / $45 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season The champion of chamber orchestras and a virtuosic violinist come together for a program of Baroque and Classical masterworks. The violinist, countertenor, and early music specialist Dmitry Sinkovsky joins one of the finest chamber ensembles you’ll find anywhere. Sinkovsky’s technical ability, expressiveness, and sheer speed will be on ...
Apr 15, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Research as we celebrate faculty who have published books since 2023. Remarks and selected faculty readings will occur at 5 p.m. If you are a faculty member that has recently published a book, please let us know. To attend, RSVP now.
Apr 16, 2025
7:30 PM
Campus Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 16, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Co-commissioned by Hancher Auditorium American bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity....
Apr 17, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Once a month, the Stanley hosts events designed to introduce the museum to University of Iowa students through engaging and creative activities. These events, called "Nights at the Museum," occur on Thursday nights when the museum is open late, are planned and developed with the assistance of the Campus Engagement Coordinator, a student employee who works with museum staff to engage student audiences. Information about past Nights at the Museum can be found here. Attending these student even...
Apr 17, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
5:30 PM
Masters Recital: Jose Medrano, jazz studies Carson Parker, Piano Milo Savage-Webster, Drums Marvin Truong, Saxophone Vincent Malan, Saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 18, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 19, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season American bass-baritone Davóne Tines — heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most powerful voices of our time” — brings together opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest to tell his deeply personal story of perseverance in ways that embrace all of humanity. In Recital No. 1: MASS, Tines offers ...
Apr 19, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 20, 2025
2:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 20, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble IV 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 21, 2025
7:30 PM
University Band M. Cory Schmitt, conductor Jarrid Jaynes and Courtney Ridge, guest conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 23, 2025
7:30 PM
Ariel Quartet with Orion Weiss, piano The University of Iowa String Quarter Residency Program presents the Ariel Quarter with Orion Weiss, piano. Learn more about the performers here: https://www.arielquartet.com/ https://www.orionweiss.com/ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 24, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Tickets on sale to the general public: Monday, July 29, at 10 a.m. Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Featuring a Hancher co-commission It's a superstar team-up as a Hancher-favorite ensemble is joined by our composer-in-residence. The second opportunity of the season to experience Third Coast Percussion (performs with Twyla Tharp Dance) and Jessie Montgomery (performs with PUBLIQuartet), and our 2024–2025 composer-in-residence. The dynamic pr...
Apr 24, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 24, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 25, 2025
5:30 PM
Master's Recital: Vincent Malan, saxophone This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 25, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 25, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 26, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Anna Beth Johnson, piano This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
3:30 PM
Masters Recital: Cal Mason, jazz Joe Shanks: Guitar Sam Ross: Saxophone Ben Williams: Bass This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
7:30 PM
Key Change: Piano Revolutionaries Series, Concert #6 This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 26, 2025
8:00 PM
An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Directed by Johanna Kasimow In a small rural town, the economy is flourishing as tourists flock to the local baths, creating palpable optimism in the community. But when a local respected scientist makes a catastrophic discovery that the water supply is contaminated, the future of the town becomes unclear. In a new adaptation, directed by Johanna Kasimow and created with the ensemble, An Enemy of the People sparks a tenuous dialogue about truth and t...
Apr 26, 2025
8:00 PM
Faculty/Grad Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
Apr 27, 2025
3:30 PM
Senior Recital: Maya St. Clair, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 27, 2025
5:30 PM
Senior Recital: Amanda Baker, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 28, 2025
7:30 PM
Concert Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 29, 2025
7:30 PM
Johnson County Landmark This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
Apr 30, 2025
7:30 PM
Center for New Music Ensemble V - with guest Ligament 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Iowa Symphony Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 2, 2025
7:30 PM
Black Pop Music Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 2, 2025
7:30 PM
Masters Recital: Orson Sproule, jazz drum set Orson Sproule, Drum Set Jose Medrano, Bass Vincent Malan, Alto Saxophone Joseph Shanks, Guitar This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: David Redhage, organ This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Composers' Workshop Concert IV 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/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 3, 2025
7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Kolbe Schoebelen, trombone Kolbe Schnoebelen - Trombone Casey Dierlam Tse - Piano This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
1:30 PM
Senior Recital: Avery Arens, organ This concert is free and open to the public.
May 4, 2025
7:30 PM
Jazz Repertory Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 5, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 6, 2025
5:30 PM
DMA Recital III - Michelle Monroe-Kettler, voice This concert is free and open to the public.
May 6, 2025
7:00 PM
Our Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session, joined by students, alumni, community members, and musicians passing through Iowa City. All members of the community are welcome for this free community event, hosted the first Tuesday of each month during the school year at the Wilder — a restaurant and bar located on the ground floor of the Graduate Hotel, on Iowa City's downtown pedestrian mall. To learn more or if you are interested in jamming, get in touch wit...
May 6, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 7, 2025
7:30 PM
UI Symphony Orchestra This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 7, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 8, 2025
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 8, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 8, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Voxman Chorale and Kantorei Concert Andrew Robinson (VC) and Jesse Reed (CS), graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 9, 2025
7:30 PM
Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II The students of the Chamber Music Residency Programs will give their final recitals. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 9, 2025
8:00 PM
Iowa New Play Festival We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions and daily readings. Funding for the Iowa New Play Festival is provided by The David and Jean Schaal Fund for Theatre Arts.
May 9, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 10, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 10, 2025
7:30 PM
Camerata Singers / University Choir Concert Christopher Ellerston and Katelyn Peterson, graduate conductors This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.
May 10, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 10, 2025
8:00 PM
BFA Concert All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
May 11, 2025
1:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 11, 2025
6:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 12, 2025
All Day
Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day wil...
May 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 15, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.). Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post-its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.
May 16, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 23, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 30, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
May 30, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy Award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerizing ch...
May 31, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
May 31, 2025
7:30 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...
Jun 1, 2025
2:00 PM
TICKETS Series subscriptions available for purchase now Individual tickets available to general public beginning at 10 a.m. on July 29 Adults $115 / $89 Students & Youth $115 / $89 / $45 Ticket prices are subject to change Part of Hancher's Broadway Series An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, t...