Events
Upcoming Events
JACK Quartet Concert No. 1
Thursday, February 25, 2027 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
The JACK Quartet—a new-music ensemble with a long history of teaching, coaching, and performing at the University of Iowa—opens Fifty for the Future with a wide-ranging set of selections from the project.
Elixir Quartet
Friday, February 26, 2027 5:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
The Elixir Quartet has been assembled for the Fifty for the Future celebration by University of Iowa cello faculty member Jamie Clark. She has brought together three of her longtime collaborators from across the country.
JACK Quartet Concert No. 2
Friday, February 26, 2027 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
JACK Quartet returns Friday evening for a second Fifty for the Future program—pulling the catalog's wider range into focus.
Student Master Class with Kronos Quartet
Saturday, February 27, 2027 12:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
The Kronos Quartet will work with students from the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, Preucil School of Music on pieces from Fifty for the Future.
Room 1078
Saturday, February 27, 2027 2:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Room 1078 is a working ensemble founded at the University of Michigan in 2015, now led by University of Iowa DMA alum Hanna Rumora.
Parataxis Quartet
Saturday, February 27, 2027 5:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Parataxis Quartet, led by cellist, music theorist, publisher, and Iowa City resident Joshua DeVries, lives up to its name. “Parataxis” is a literary term describing clauses set side by side without conjunctions. DeVries built the quartet around the principle.
UI Dance Company Concert
Saturday, February 27, 2027 7:30pm
Space Place Theater
UI Dance Company, the resident repertory and touring company of the Department of Dance, presents a concert of works under the direction of Jenn Pray.
Kronos Quartet Concert No. 1
Saturday, February 27, 2027 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Over five decades, Kronos Quartet has commissioned more than a thousand works, premiered them on stages—including Hancher stages—across six continents, and reshaped contemporary music's sense of what four string players can do. Fifty for the Future is a powerful and provocative expression of that work.
Kronos Quartet Family Concert
Sunday, February 28, 2027 1:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Kronos Quartet has been doing concerts for young listeners for years, revealing how four string players can sound like almost anything.
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, February 28, 2027 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.
Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.
Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...