Music

Steve Schick will perform with the Center for New Music Ensemble for the first time in nearly three decades, in a program featuring two major compositions which will bring together acoustic and electronic media.

Inuksuit comes to Iowa City where Schick will be joined by nearly a hundred percussionists from around the Midwest to celebrate this music and its legacy.  

In celebration of Steve Schick’s residency, Iowa Percussion will present a gala concert.

Steven Schick will present a lecture and recital that explores the importance of engaging with complex music.

The Jerusalem Quartet brings an evening of Dmitri Shostakovich’s searingly intense music to Hancher’s intimate onstage experience. The ensemble will perform two Shostakovich quartets in the first concert and two different quartets by the composer in the second concert.

At Voxman Music Building the Crossing and the UI choir Kantorei will perform together at the top of concert and music director Donald Nally will lead The Crossing in the performance of Lang’s “poor hymnal."

Hancher and Feed Me Weird Things present a totally unique evening of music and food.

“The Schumann Quartet plays staggeringly well ... [and is] without doubt one of the very best formations among today’s abundance of quartets ... [The quartet impresses] with sparkling virtuosity and a willingness to astonish.” — Süddeutsche Zeitung

Together Ax and McGill will present a perfect mix of music for the two instruments—including a work by Jessie Montgomery, Hancher’s 2024–2025 composer-in-residence.

The members of JACK Quartet—champions of contemporary music and musicians of prodigious talent—return to play compositions by John Luther Adams and Elliott Carter.