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
CANCELLED Thursday, January 20, 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Guest Artist – Michael Hernandez, saxophone
Due to the difficulty of traveling due to COVID, this recital has unfortunately been CANCELLED.
If you have purchased a ticket for this recital, a refund will automatically be issued. If you have ticket questions, please email or call the Newman Center Box Office at newmanboxoffice@du.edu or 303 871-7720.
Friday, January 28, 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Matthew Zalkind, cello with Hsiao-Ling Lin, piano
$12 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
Cellist Matthew Zalkind performs a recital with pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin. The New York Times praised Zalkind for his “impressive refinement, eloquent phrasing and singing tone.”
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Tuesday, February 1, 7:30 p.m. Gates Concert Hall
Concert – Lamont Wind Ensemble
$5 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
Joseph Martin conducts the Lamont Wind Ensemble.
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CANCELLED Wednesday, February 2, 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Guest Artist – Gilbert Kalish, piano
Due to the difficulty of traveling due to COVID, this recital has unfortunately been CANCELLED.
If you have purchased a ticket for this recital, a refund will automatically be issued. If you have ticket questions, please email or call the Newman Center Box Office at newmanboxoffice@du.edu or 303 871-7720.
Thursday, February 3, 7:30 p.m., Hamilton Recital Hall
Guest Artist – Nicolò Spera, guitar
$12 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
Nicolò is one of the few guitarists in the world to perform on both six-string and ten-string guitars, as well as on theorbo. His wide-ranging repertoire includes the extraordinary music of the Franco-Andalusian composer Maurice Ohana.
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Tuesday, February 8, 7:30 p.m., Gates Concert Hall
Concert – Lamont Symphony Orchestra, introducing Heidi Melton, soprano
$5 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
Héctor Jardón conducts Coleridge-Taylor’s The Bamboula, Op.75 and Lawrence Golan conducts soprano Heidi Melton with the orchestra in highlights from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
The orchestra and choirs performance of Forrest’s Requiem for the Living has been moved to June.
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Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m., Gates Concert Hall
Concert – The Spirituals Project Choir – "This is My Story, This is My Song"
$5 Ticket, All seats reserved, Complimentary parking
M. Roger Holland and The Spirituals Project Choir partner with local community organization Soul Stories to bring to life the stories of Denver community members in this evening of storytelling and spirituals.
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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)
