Scholarship Benefit Concert
Please join us for the 44th Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert
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Friday, September 26, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.
We’re thrilled to welcome you back to the mainstage at the Gallagher Bluedorn for the 44th Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert: Our History! We're planning an evening of exceptional performances by UNI faculty and students, featuring a wide range of works, composers and performers aimed at highlighting the unique history and story of the School of Music, while continuing to build on that legacy into the future.
The concert will include performances by the UNI Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band One, Cecilians, Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, UNI Opera, as well as featured soloists and more. Repertoire will include selections from Strauss's Die Fledermaus, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and more.
Please join us for this exciting event and help to support student scholarships at UNI’s School of Music!
Why a Scholarship Benefit Concert?
The Scholarship Benefit Concerts have been raising scholarship funds for exceptionally talented music students and students in need since 1982. In addition to the income from tickets sales for the concerts, we have developed a network of community, small business, corporate and university-related donors. The extent of this support has been most gratifying to the students and faculty at UNI’s School of Music.
Your support makes the difference and allows each student to excel at UNI! The annual Scholarship Benefit Concert is a culmination of the School of Music’s long-term dedication to excellence in preparing students to be successful musicians. Through your support, our students excel in achieving their goals.
To allow us to continue the support we have provided in the past, please consider becoming a special donor.
Ways to Give
To give online, visit the Scholarship Benefit Concert giving page.
If you prefer to give by mail, please use the giving form you received in the mail (or you can print a donor form here) and return to:
UNI Foundation Financial Services
121 Commons
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0239
To find out more about donor categories and benefits, please contact us. To make an even more lasting gift, please consider contributing to the endowment of the Scholarship Benefit Concert fund. For more information, contact the UNI Foundation at (319) 273-7727.
Please note: light hors d'oeuvres and chocolates will be served at the post-concert reception. Each guest will receive one complimentary drink ticket with the purchase of their concert ticket. Additional beverages may be purchased at the cash bar. Special Donors giving at the Patron level or higher will receive a special commemorative souvenir pin, which they can present at the bar for unlimited refreshments.
All seats for the benefit concert are reserved. The final date for adding names to the special donor section of the acknowledgement page of the benefit concert program is two weeks prior to the concert date.
$40 of each ticket purchased for the Scholarship Benefit Concert is tax deductible (the remaining $10 is for complimentary drink and chocolates – “goods received.”) Special donors: all gifts are tax deductible less $10 goods received per ticket for gifts up to $299, and $15 goods received per ticket for gifts $300 and over (if you choose to receive no tickets, your full gift amount is tax deductible).