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.
Wednesday, January 8
CATS Guest Artist – Horacio Contreras, cello with Ana Maria Otamendi, piano
Horacio Contreras is currently considered one of the finest Venezuelan cellists of his generation and Ana Maria Otamendi was studio artist at the Houston Grand Opera Studio and is director of LSU’s collaborative piano program.
Tickets $10, Complimentary parking
- 7:30 p.m.
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Sunday, January 12
Faculty Recital – Joseph Galema, organ
Joseph Galema performs works by Bach, Brahms and Vierne, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of French organist and composer Louis Vierne’s birth.
Tickets $10, Complimentary parking
- 4:30 p.m.
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Tuesday, February 11
Newman Center & National Geographic present "JANE – In Concert"
A new film telling the story of Jane Goodall. The Lamont Symphony Orchestra will perform the Philip Glass score live with the film.
Tickets $16–$47
- 7:30 p.m.
- Gates Concert Hall
April 23–26
Opera – Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
Lamont Opera Theatre and the Lamont Symphony Orchestra present a psychedelic take on Mozart's comic opera.
Tickets on sale February 3
- 7:30 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday
- Gates Concert Hall
Experience a performance or event.
Lamont on Tour
Tours & Event Performances
Lamont ensembles and faculty members tour and perform at national and regional events. Recent tours and performances include Lamont Jazz Orchestra performances as award winners at the 61st Monterey Jazz Festival, the Lamont Chorale tour of Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico and bassoon faculty member Martin Kuuskmann's recent tour of China.
Guest Artists & Master Classes
Lamont offers guest artist performances and master classes throughout the year, performed and taught by internationally-recognized musicians, composers, music industry leaders and scholars. See our calendar to find opportunities to attend guest artist performances or observe master classes.
Productions, Series & Organizations
Lamont Opera Theatre
Lamont Opera Theatre starts with the musical score or script and adds the singers, orchestra, sets, costumes, sound and lighting to create a fully-staged opera or musical.
The Spirituals Project
Director M. Roger Holland II and the Spirituals Project have a mission: “To preserve and revitalize the music and teachings of the sacred songs called spirituals.”
CATS: Celebrated Artist-Teacher String Series
A unique, world-class series of celebrated artists-teachers from university music schools across the nation.
Guitar Festival
Josefina P. Tuason Intenational Guitar Competition results:
1st prize: Steven Lerman
2nd prize: Dragos Ilie
3rd prize: Philip Goldenberg
4th prize: Gabriel Balogh
Youth competition results:
1st prize: Kyle Khembunjong
2nd prize: Garrett Podgovski
3rd prize: Andrew Amaya
4th prize: Gracie Flowerday
5th prize: Ava Frommell
HEALING 2020: The Spirituals Project National Conference
SAVE THE DATE May 14–16, 2020
University of Denver
Keynote: Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.
More information to come.
