



UNI String Festival
Combining Violin Festival, Viola Festival, CelloFest, and Bass Day, this hands-on workshop for high school string players will include master classes, technique classes, workshops and a final concert. Featured guest artists include Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin, Julia Bullard, viola, Austin Huntington, cello, and Mark Urness, bass. Attendees will have the chance to work with our featured guests, UNI faculty members, and current UNI students and experience what the UNI campus has to offer!





Improvisation Summit: Board of Regents & Tracteur Hammer
Board of Regents
Ritwik Banerji, tenor sax & no-input mixer
Jean-François Charles, clarinets & electronics
Will Yager, bass
Tracteur Hammer
Hunter Diamond, tenor saxophone & electronics
Florian Nastorg, baritone saxophone
Yoram Rosilio, double bass
Mikel Patrick Avery, drums

Improvised Music Series: Seth Andrew Davis/Alexander Adams/Bob Bucko Jr/Will Yager + ASY Quartet
Chicago-Iowa-Kansas City-Chicago noise improv quartet of Alexander Adams, Seth Andrew Davis, Bob Bucko Jr., and Will Yager make a rare appearance.
Andrew Scott Young leads a quartet with himself plus Dave Miller, Luke Polipnick, Jacob Fawcett.





International Society of Bassists Convention: Solo Recital
I will be playing a solo program of works by Eli Greenhoe, Scott Wollschleger, Emily Koh, Cullyn Murphy, and Elliott Lupp.



LIGAMENT at University of Iowa Concert 2/2
LIGAMENT in residence at the University of Iowa Center for New Music to perform works from our repertoire and work with student composers.

LIGAMENT at University of Iowa Concert 1/2
LIGAMENT in residence at the University of Iowa Center for New Music to perform works from our repertoire and work with student composers.

Sanders/Hakanson/Yager Trio
Music of Julian Lage, Ben Monder, Bill Frisell, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Paul Motian


MOXsonic
Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival (MOXsonic)
Detailed schedule/program here: https://moxsonic.org/2025-moxsonic-schedule-and-programs/


UNI Faculty Recital
I will be giving a solo recital of works by Dragonetti, Scodanibbio, Sciarrino, Lorusso, and Grillo


UNI New Music Festival
UNI Faculty will perform guest composer Libby Larsen’s Four on the Floor

UNI Faculty Recital: Music of Julian Lage
Luke Sanders, Josh Hakanson, and myself perform the music of Julian Lage

SPLICE Festival VI
Sivan Cohen Elias and I will be performing her work RESET
Full schedule/program here: https://splicemusic.org/festival/program

Flannau Duo/LIGAMENT+Jean-François Charles
LIGAMENT (Anika Kildegaard and Will Yager) join with clarinetist and electronic musician Jean-François Charles for an evening of music for voice, clarinet, double bass, and electronics. The program will include works by Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, Marc Monnet, Jean-François Charles, and Paul Novak.
Flannau Duo will join us on this bill.

LIGAMENT + Jean-François Charles
LIGAMENT (Anika Kildegaard and Will Yager) join with clarinetist and electronic musician Jean-François Charles for an evening of music for voice, clarinet, double bass, and electronics. The program will include works by Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, Marc Monnet, Jean-François Charles, and Paul Novak.
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Tombeau: New Works with loadbang
loadbang will be presenting a program titled Tombeau, featuring a world premieres of works by Michael Hersch and Eva-Maria Houben as well as pieces by Raven Chacon and Eli Greenhoe. loadbang will be joined by Miranda Cuckson (violin) and Will Yager (bass) for Michael Hersch's new work




Ramin Roshandel/Will Yager
8:30pm doors, 9:15pm music
$12, $8 w/student ID, all ages show