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 Events
Fall Season Concerts Streamed Online
Since we will not be able to invite you to the Newman Center this fall, many Lamont concerts and recitals will be streamed online. Because of the uncertainty of the current health crisis, our concert schedule will only be posted on this website and on our concert line (303-871-6412).
Friday, October 23
Concert — Jazz Small Groups
Small groups from Jazz Studies perform.
Program: Announced from the stage.
- 5:00 p.m.
Friday, October 30
Concert — Lamont Horn Ensemble
The Lamont Horn Ensemble, directed by David Byrd-Marrow, performs.
PROGRAM LINK TO COME
- 7:30 p.m.
- Streamed
Friday, October 30
Concert — Lamont Jazz Ensemble
The Lamont Jazz Ensemble, directed by Mike Abbott, performs
PROGRAM LINK TO COME.
- 7:30 p.m.
- Streamed
Fall Season
Student Recitals
Graduate Recital — Alexis Haro, tenor with Beth Nielsen, piano. Saturday, October 24, 4:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH STREAM
Graduate Recital — Angela Mitchell, soprano with Sahar Nouri, piano. Saturday, October 24, 7:30 p.m., PROGRAM WATCH RECORDING
Junior Recital — Artur Korotin, violin with Madoka Asari, piano. Sunday, October 25, 1:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH STREAM
Graduate Recital — Allen Adinoff, drums. Sunday, October 25, 2:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH ZOOM To join by phone:1-(312)-626-6799, ID:833 9642 4895Pass:266871
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Fall Season
Student Recitals
Junior Recital — Johanna Spratte, soprano. Sunday, November 1, 1:30 p.m. PROGRAM LINK TO COME WATCH STREAM
Junior Recital — Angel Jambois, soprano with Hukum Singh Khalsa, piano. Sunday, November 1, 7:30 p.m. PROGRAM LINK TO COME WATCH STREAM
Graduate Recital — Lauren Ballew, violin with Madoka Asari, piano. Saturday, November 7, 1:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH STREAM
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Fall Season
Student Recitals
Graduate Recital — Jenna Hunt, harp. Sunday, November 8, 4:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH STREAM
Junior Recital — Ava Johnson, cello with Madoka Asari, piano. Sunday, November 8, 7:30 p.m. PROGRAM WATCH STREAM
Graduate Recital — Natalie Thompson, voice with Beth Nielsen, piano. Friday, November 13, 7:30 p.m. PROGRAM & STREAMING LINK TO COME
Graduate Recital — Zoë Spangler, voice with Sahar Nouri, piano. Saturday, November 14, 7:30 p.m. PROGRAM & STREAMING LINK TO COME
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.
Learn More
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
