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 Concerts & Events
Thursday, October 6
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Works by:
- Marc Mellits
- Willem Jeths
- Annika K. Soclofsky
- Jeff Scott
Masterclass immediately preceding the recital at 5:30 p.m. in Hamilton
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Monday, October 10
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Nothing Lives Long: Chief White Antelope's Song
The University of Denver welcomes George Levi, Creg Hart, Roger Davis, and Kendal Kauley, four Southern Arapaho and Cheyenne singers who keep Chief White Antelope’s song as a living historical source for their community, the generations that preceded them, and the generations yet to be born.
- 6:00pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 12
Lamont Wind Ensemble
The Lamont Wind Ensemble presents a space-themed concert, including a piece by Eric Whitacre called “Deep Field.” The Lamont Chorale joins the group for this piece, which is also accompanied by video projection.
Also on the program is Luminosity for Brass and Percussion by Anthony di Lorenzo; Beyond by Wataru Hokoyama; and "Jupiter" from The Planets by Gustav Holst.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
2022–2023
Coming this autumn. The Lamont Concert Season celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Newman Center.
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, Programs & Special Events
2022 Denver Guitar Festival & Competition
September 9 - 11, 2022
$6,000+ IN PRIZES
Josefina P. Tuason International Guitar Competition
Youth Competition - Concerts
Master Classes - Lectures
Laura Husbands, Artistic Director, laura.husbands@du.edu
Jonathan Leathwood, Chair of Guitar
Photo by Terry Shapiro (c)
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Lamont Piano Preparatory Program
We offer students a time-tested and unique program of group and private lessons. Our curriculum is designed to develop every phase of complete musicianship, including music reading, rhythm, theory, creativity, and ear training—all ideally suited to group instruction.
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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.”
Lamont Summer Academy
Join us for an inspiring, innovative and fun 14-day intensive pre-college music experience in state-of-the-art facilities with outstanding artist faculty and musical peers from throughout the United States and abroad!
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