2024-2025 Season

Turtle Island Quartet performs September 20, 2024 at Baldwin Elementary Auditorium. Since its inception in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. Winner of the 2006 and 2008 Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album, Turtle Island Quartet fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of art has inevitably been redefined.

Iowa Brass takes the KROC Center stage December 8, 2024. Since 1986, Iowa Brass has been entertaining audiences throughout Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond. The group is comprised of about 35 amateur musicians who live around the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids metro area. Iowa Brass is the only independent, full-time British style brass band in Iowa.

January 25, 2025, at Quincy’s historic State Street Theater, Candice Hill percussionist and steel pan (steel drum) performer and instructor, will perform with her band. Candice is a clinician and adjudicator for drumline and school percussion. Candice has performed in Trinidad with Skiffle Bunch in Panorama, and has performed as a guest artist in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Illinois.

March 1, 2025, The GRAMMY Award winning vocal supergroup, säje will perform at John Wood Community College. säje is the brainchild of vocalist/composers Sara Gazarek, Amanda Taylor, Johnaye Kendrick, and Erin Bentlage. The group won its first GRAMMY for their arrangement of “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” in collaboration with their friend Jacob Collier. The union of säje is rooted in the tradition of joy, curiosity, lush harmony, heart-felt expression, and profound sisterhood.

June 7, 2025, QCMA presents Cinderella with the Chicago Festival Ballet at Morrison Theater. Kenneth von Heidecke was chief choreographer for VH Dance Center, and founder and choreographer of Von Heidecke’s Chicago Festival Ballet. He is also an internationally renowned choreographer for opera and ballet companies around the world, having choreographed over 60 operas and 80 ballets.