The University of Iowa

UI School of Music

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:

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.

UI Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra is proud to present its first ever Holiday Pops Celebration, featuring sparkling symphonic holiday tunes, jazzy vocal selections, festive film music, and a collaboration with the Preucil School of Music. Catchy songs are sure to be fun for the whole family as the Symphony Orchestra performs new works and holiday classics from around the world under the direction of Dr. Mélisse Brunet.

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.