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.
Lamont Concerts & Events
Friday, January 29
Lamont Opera Theatre — Purcell's "The Fairy Queen"
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, Purcell's The Fairy Queen is performed by Lamont Opera Theatre undergraduate vocalists.
PROGRAM LINK TO COME
- 7:30 p.m.
- Streamed
Friday, February 5
Concert — Lamont Ragtime Ensemble, percussion
Lamont Ragtime Ensemble percussionists give lighthearted performances on mallet instruments.
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- 12:00 NOON
- Streamed
Friday, February 5
Concert — Jazz Small Group One
Jazz studies presents Jazz Small Group One.
Program to be announced from the stage.
- 5:00 p.m.
- Streamed
Tuesday, February 9
Concert — Lamont Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Golan, conductor
The Gold and Crimson String Orchestras perform works by Vivaldi, Bao, Price, Barber, Albinoni, Bloch.
PROGRAM LINK TO COME
- 7:30 p.m.
- Streamed
Wednesday, February 10
Concert — Lamont Wind Ensemble
The Lamont Wind Ensemble performs, conducted by Joseph Martin.
PROGRAM LINK TO COME
- 7:30 p.m.
- Streamed
Fall Season
Recorded Performances — Lamont Choirs
"Nearly Insane" Words by Mary Moore Easter, Music by Ysaÿe M. Barnwell — The Lamont Chorale, directed by Catherine Sailer
"One Voice" by The Jennys — The Lamont Women's Chorus, directed by Nathan Payant
WATCH CHORALE WATCH WOMEN
Winter Season
Student Recitals
Graduate and undergraduate performers present their student recitals.
- Streamed
Sundays in February
Master Classes - MET Orchestra Musicians
Lamont students will virtually attend and perform in 14 special master classes taught by MET Orchestra Musicians.
- Streamed
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 and 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.”
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!
The application for the 2021 Academy will be available later this Fall.
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2021 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Solo Trumpet Competition
October 1 & 2, 2021
The world’s most prestigious competition for jazz trumpeters, honoring one of the world’s greatest brass educators, comes to Colorado's front range and the University of Denver. Two days of intense competition, guest artist performances and master classes, and the chance to meet competitors from around the world.
Sponsored by the International Trumpet Guild® in cooperation with the Herb Alpert Foundation
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CATS - The Celebrated Artist-Teacher String Series
The Celebrated Artist-Teacher String Series (CATS) brings together a unique, world-class series of celebrated artists-teachers from university music schools across the nation. Collaboration with Lamont faculty and outstanding students provides exceptional opportunities for exciting, professional and inspired chamber music performances.
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2020 Denver Guitar Festival & Competition
2020 International Guitar Competition Awards
1st prize: Katarzyna Smolarek, Salzburg, Austria
2nd prize: Bogdan Mihailescu, Gaillard, France
3rd prize: Ana Maria Iordache, Tucson, AZ
4th prize: Chinnawat Themkumkwun, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 Youth Competition Awards
1st prize: Pijus Balevičius, Kaunas, Lithuania
2nd prize: Thatcher Harrison, South Dartmouth, MA
3rd prize: Mateo Terán Alcocer, Sangolqui, Ecuador
4th prize: Aleksandr Lapshin, Omsk, Russia
