The Lamont Society

Since 1983, the Lamont Society has provided financial support and promoted the mission of the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. Every time you make a gift, it helps us support our ensembles, purchase instruments, underwrite master classes and performances by guest artists, fund scholarships, send our ensembles on tour, and provide travel funds to students for summer festivals, competitions and auditions. Your vital support allows us to continue to thrive as a widely recognized premier music program. Thank you for celebrating 100 years of Lamont by making your gift today!

As the new Director of the Lamont School of Music, I’m honored to join this extraordinary institution at such an exciting time. We’ve just completed our centennial year—a remarkable celebration of Lamont’s past—and now we step boldly into a new century of excellence, creativity, and innovation. I look forward to getting to know you, and I invite you to help shape what comes next.

Your support is critical to ensuring that Lamont continues to nurture the next generation of artists, scholars, and cultural leaders. Together, we can build on our rich legacy and reach even greater heights.

Make your gift today—and be part of Lamont’s future.

Brian Pertl Director, Lamont School of Music
Brian Pertl

Last year was a banner year as the Lamont School of Music celebrated one hundred years of musical brilliance, and now we look forward with great anticipation to the next one hundred years. Lamont nurtures world-changing performers, scholars, and entrepreneurs of tomorrow in an environment of empowerment, support, collaboration, creativity, and possibility. At Lamont we are actively training the future artists of tomorrow, today. Your generous support is greatly appreciated and will help Lamont at the forefront of high-level music education as we prepare our graduates to lead the way into the next century of soul-stirring music-making.

Andrea Meyers President, Lamont Society Council
Andrea Meyers

$330,978.50 in gifts Since July 1, 2024

267 donors Since July 1, 2024

Students perform for donors at the Lamont Showcase.

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Your gifts support and sustain the excellence of our programs and the talent of our students, faculty and staff. We appreciate your generous gift. 

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Gift Designations

Student Scholarship Support

The Lamont Undergraduate Scholarship Fund supports freshman, sophomore, junior and senior music majors to attend DU and fulfill their musical dreams.

The Nancy Cochran Graduate Scholarship Fund, named for our most recent former director, supports students pursuing Master’s Degrees, Artist Diplomas and Performance Certificates.

Student and Faculty Programs

The Lamont School of Music Fund allows your donation to be used where it is most needed.

The McGoldrick Musical Stage Works Endowment provides support for opera and musical theatre productions.

The Joe Docksey Student Career Development Fund, named for Lamont’s long-time director, supports our students’ career development.

The Keith Ward Visiting Artists Endowed Fund, named for Lamont's immediate past director, helps fund visiting guest artists and master classes.

The Lamont Student Ensemble Travel Fund helps finance ensemble performances at schools, music conventions or special events.

The Spirituals Project Fund supports the award-winning choir and their work preserving spirituals, an oral tradition of work songs that were created and first sung by African peoples enslaved in America.

You may also search and designate a gift in support of another unique fund through the College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences.  

Give by Phone: Laura Mack at 303.871.6267 or Keith Ward at 303.871-6400 keith.ward@du.edu 

Mail to:
Lamont Society
University of Denver Lamont School of Music
Newman Center for the Performing Arts
2344 East Iliff Ave.
Denver, CO 80208

Contact

Jennifer Garner

Executive Director of Development

Tonya Kelly

Senior Director of Development

Laura Mack

Director of Development

Hannah Thompson

Director of Alumni Engagement