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.
Please visit our calendar
for our Fall Season schedule and important COVID19 campus access information and health restrictions that must be followed to attend our concerts.
Lamont Concerts & Events
Sunday, September 26, 4:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Joseph Galema, organ
$12 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
A critically-acclaimed organ soloist, Joe has toured throughout the U.S., England, France, Scandinavia and the Baltic States.
STREAMING & PROGRAM LINKS TO COME
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Susan Cahill, double bass with Basil Vendryes, viola; Matthew Zalkind, cello; Richard Harris, trombone & Eric Gunnison, piano
$12 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
Playing as soloists and in chamber ensembles, these faculty artists perform individually with the Colorado Symphony and Metropolitan Opera and in concert and recital halls everywhere.
STREAMING & PROGRAM LINKS TO COME
October 1 & 2
2021 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition
This fall 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.
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
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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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!
The application for the 2021 Academy will be available later this Fall.
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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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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)
