Neko Case | L'Rain | Hanif Abdurraqib
Hancher Auditorium is thrilled to host the opening ceremonies of Mission Creek Festival 2024 with Hanif Abdurraqib, L'Rain, and Neko Case.
Duke Ellington Sacred Music Concerts with Kantorei and Johnson County Landmark
Please join Johnson County Landmark and Kantorei for an exceptionally rare performance of selections from Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts.” This composition is a truly collaborative masterwork which combines elements of jazz, classical music, choral music, spirituals, gospel, blues and dance into a single body of work. Originally composed as three separate concerts (premiered in ’65, ’68 and ’73), this music represents the very first time in jazz history that the traditional divide between the sacred and secular factions of Black music culture was blatantly crossed.
UI Orchestras & Choirs with the Chamber Singers of Iowa City
Jessica Faselt, soprano
Steven Soph, tenor
Royce Blackburn, baritone
University of Iowa Symphony Orchestras
Dr. David Gompper, interim director of orchestral studies
Dr. Timothy Stalter, conductor/director of choral activities
University of Iowa Faculty Chamber Orchestra
Dr. David Puderbaugh, conductor/assistant director of choral activities
University of Iowa Choirs:
Nickel Creek
A sum of more than their staggering parts, Nickle Creek is the trio that revolutionized bluegrass and folk in the early 2000s and ushered in a new era of Americana music.
Attacca Quartet and Caroline Shaw in conversation with Beth Oakes
Part of the Creative Matters lecture series.
The members of the acclaimed Attacca Quartet—described by The New York Times as “exuberant, funky, and … exactingly nuanced”—are passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire and new work—including that of composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw.
Attacca Quartet and Caroline Shaw
The members of the acclaimed Attacca Quartet are passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire and new work. The quartet and Shaw will perform music from their 2022 album Evergreen.
Fall Welcome Concert
Hancher welcomes back our entire community for a music festival-style event on our front lawn. The event opens with big city rocker Elizabeth Moen and closes with the electronic/R&B dance party of Dawn Richard. Songwriter and vocalist Brittany Howard will headline this show.
Fierce
Fierce follows four teenage girls finding identity and purpose in the world as they write their college essays in a high school writers’ workshop featuring an ensemble of University of Iowa singers, musicians, and dancers with production support from the Performing Arts Production Unit and Hancher Auditorium.
Oumou Sangaré
Presented at The Englert Theatre
Oumou Sangaré is an icon whose powerful music and fierce feminism have inspired artists from Alicia Keys to Aya Nakamura to Beyoncé. Her most recent record, Timbuktu, blends the sounds of traditional West African instruments with those instruments most associated with the blues.
Oumou Sangaré is an icon whose powerful music and fierce feminism have inspired artists from Alicia Keys to Aya Nakamura to Beyoncé. Her most recent record, Timbuktu, blends the sounds of traditional West African instruments with those instruments most associated with the blues.
Sō Percussion and Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion composed Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, a journey across the soul's landscape through distinctly contemporary songs. The concert will open with Go Placidly With Haste, a new work composed by Jason Treuting performed with Iowa Percussion from the UI School of Music.