The University of Iowa

Music

The Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is among the world’s preeminent ensembles—and a Hancher favorite as well. The orchestra returns to perform Max Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto No. 1 as well as Franz Schubert’s final symphony, a masterwork that lives up to its moniker, The Great.

Program (subject to change)
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major

Castalian String Quartet

In 2018, the Castalian String Quartet was the recipient of the inaugural Merito String Quartet Award & Valentin Erben Prize and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. The quartet followed that up by being named the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist of the Year.

Storm Large

Hear Storm Large take on the holidays in her third Hancher performance. An undeniable force of nature, she’ll light up the holidays with a tempest of seasonal favorites.

Archetypes

This unique blending of musical voices will take the stories and characters that recur throughout the world’s disparate myths and legends as a jumping off point for an expansive musical journey that is at once idiosyncratic and universal.