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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.

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.

Key Change #4

Sunday, February 28, 2027 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

Iowa Percussion, Jean-François Charles + Will Yager, Dimma Sax Quartet

Sunday, February 28, 2027 3:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Audiences travel through three of Hancher’s spaces for performances by Iowa-based musicians. The format is part concert, part architectural tour, and each set brings a different texture: percussion ringing through the lobby's open volumes, a low-end duo with electronics in the club space, and a saxophone quartet in the behind-the-scenes backstage transfer area.

Kronos Quartet Concert No. 2

Sunday, February 28, 2027 7:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

Kronos Quartet—the endlessly innovative ensemble that commissioned 50 diverse works to expand how musicians and audiences think about the string quartet—closes the Fifty for the Future adventure with a program featuring eight composers and music drawn from the project catalog and beyond.

Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Saturday, March 6, 2027 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Kenny Lee, Cello
Ilia Radoslavov, PianoKenny Lee, Director of Orchestral Studies, and guest pianist Ilia Radoslavov of Illinois Wesleyan University present an evening featuring the complete sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms, with the addition of the composer's First Violin Sonata.Program:
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 78 (originally for violin and piano)
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

This concert is free and open to the public.

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