Performances & Events
Engaging the Rocky Mountain West
Our students, faculty members and guest artists perform on the concert and recital hall stages of the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts, one of the nation’s most extraordinary campus arts centers. Audiences select from 300 concerts and events each season featuring the repertoires of orchestras, choirs, jazz ensembles, world musics and operas.
Our students experience and participate in Denver’s unrivaled metropolitan arts environment where professional performing arts companies offer inspiration and performance opportunities.
DU Lamont is thrilled to welcome audiences to the Newman Center for live concerts again.
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Lamont Concert Line: (303) 871-6412
Lamont Concerts & Events
Wednesday, February 1
Lamont Wind Ensemble
This celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month will feature guest conductor Wesley Broadnax and guest narrator Charles Moore.
The program includes a work by Michael Daugherty called "Rosa Parks Blvd," which celebrates Rosa Parks and features soloists Richard Harris, Greg Harper, and Pete Ellefson. The centerpiece of the concert is Joseph Schwantner's "New Morning for the World Daybreak of Freedom." It features guest conductor Wesley Broadnax and guest narrator Charles Moore.
- 7:30 p.m.
- Gates Concert Hall
Friday, February 3
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Jeremy Reynolds & Friends
Jeremy Reynolds, Professor of Clarinet at Lamont, will be joined by pianist Margaret McDonald and cellist Alice Yoo. Streaming option available!
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Tuesday, February 7
Lamont Symphony Orchestra
The LSO will perform a piece called “Phase D” by J.J. Holllingsworth, a Lamont graduate who is of Native American descent. Also on the program is the Symphony No. 2 by Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a Black contemporary of Mozart’s, and the Schumann Konzertstück for 4 horns and orchestra featuring David Byrd-Marrow and three of his superstar horn colleagues from around the country. The concert concludes with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.
- 7:30 p.m.
- Gates Concert Hall
Thursday, February 9
Guest Artist Recital: Andrew Wilder, guitar
Wilder was born into a musical family with 10 brothers and sisters who have all studied classical music extensively, and with parents who are both professional classical musicians. He has performed and studied throughout Europe, the United States, and South America. As a soloist, Wilder has been the recipient of awards including first prizes in the Senior Guitar competition of the Society of American Musicians, the International Tennessee Guitar Competition, and the Art of Strings international competition.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
The Spirituals Project
Festivals
Guitar Festival
The Denver Guitar Festival & Competition is a three-day celebration of the classical guitar that includes guest recitals, lectures, master classes and a competition with monetary prizes.
Carmine Caruso Trumpet Competition
This October the Lamont School of Music will host this international jazz trumpet competition sponsored by the International Trumpet Guild in cooperation with the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Colorado Clarinet Day
Colorado Clarinet Day celebrates clarinet music with internationally renowned guest artists, master classes, performances, the Clarinet Choir, and vendors sporting the latest clarinet gear.
