UI Symphony Orchestra

We are thrilled to present the first University Symphony Orchestra concert of 2025! The program, Requiem to Revival, will feature an array of eclectic works:

Requiem to Revival - Jessie Montgomery Residency
Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem
Jessie Montgomery - Shift, Change, Turn
George Gershwin - American in Paris

Jessie Montgomery is the 2024–2025 Hancher composer-in-residence. The winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Jessie Montgomery was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Mead Composer-In-Residence for three years beginning in July 2021. The Washington Post describes her work as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life.” Throughout Hancher's 2024–2025 season, Montgomery has been engaged in intensive work with students in the University of Iowa School of Music.

We are especially excited to collaborate with her and present her colorful and celestial work.

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943786

This concert is free and open to the public, and is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more.