Lamont Society
Lamont Society Donors Supporting #DULamontCommunity
During this extraordinary year we enjoyed outstanding performances and exciting live participation in classes and rehearsals. When the campus closed, we experienced performances from homes on social media and rose to the challenge of pivoting to online classes.
Our students, faculty and staff, supported by our alumni, parents and donors, are the #DULamontCommunity. We’ll be back on our stages and in our classrooms someday soon, stronger and more connected than ever!
Since 1983, the Lamont Society has provided financial support and promoted the mission, vision and activities within the community for the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.
Your gifts support and sustain the excellence of our programs and the talent of our students, faculty and staff. Your donations and endowed funds account for more than 50 percent of our operating resources. This supports our ensembles, helps us purchase instruments, underwrites master classes and performances by guest artists, maintains scholarships, sends our ensembles on tour, and provides travel funds to students for summer festivals, competitions and auditions.
To celebrate your generosity, you are invited to attend five or six exclusive events during the academic year. These events range from faculty recitals to a day of classes and rehearsals, and Showcase Lamont.
We enter this coming year after one that none of us ever imagined. While we were restricted from performing concerts, teaching classes in person, and enjoying our shared presence in the Newman Center, our community thrived through outreach, creativity, and dedication to our students and our art. We remained committed to that spark that makes Lamont such a special community.
Keith Ward Director, Lamont School of Music
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Tuesday, October 27
PRESENTING OUR NEW FACULTY
Our new faculty members – hornist David Byrd-Marrow, composer Sean Friar, trombonist Richard Harris, opera music director Sahar Nouri and violinist Igor Pikayzen – have performed in concert halls around the world. Tonight they introduce themselves to you.
Lamont Society donors donating at least $160 per couple or $80 per individual will receive an email invitation for this exclusive event.
Since we will not yet be able to invite you to the Newman Center this fall, this Lamont Society event will be a zoom event exclusively for donors.
- 7:00 p.m.
- Zoom
Tuesday, January 26
ENCORE PIANO SPECTACULAR
Last year's Piano Spectacular was so popular with you, we have received requests to give an all-new encore performance. Director Keith Ward and members of the Lamont faculty will bring the house down.
Lamont Society donors donating at least $160 per couple or $80 per individual, will receive an invitation in the mail for this exclusive event.
- 7:00 p.m.
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Tuesday, February 23
FACULTY AUTHORS, COMPOSERS & RECORDING ARTISTS
Published members of our creative faculty perform and read from works they have composed, written or recorded. After the performance you will be able to meet them up close, see their books and CDs and maybe even purchase something to take home.
Lamont Society donors donating at least $160 per couple or $80 per individual will receive an invitation in the mail for this exclusive event..
- 7:00 p.m.
- Hamilton Recital Hall
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Thursday, April 8
DAY AT LAMONT
Our most popular event of the year, moved to the Spring for 2020-2021. Explore what it means to be a student at the Lamont School of Music. Attend classes, rehearsals and a special lunchtime performance while meeting our students and members of our faculty along the way.
Lamont Society donors donating at least $160 per couple or $80 per individual will receive an invitation in the mail for this exclusive event.
- 9:00 a,m, - 3:00 p.m.
- Newman Center
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Tuesday, May 18
SHOWCASE LAMONT
Outstanding students perform for a sold-out audience highlighting many of the most memorable performances of the year. A very special evening culminating in a glittering champagne reception.
Lamont Society donors donating at least $250 per couple or $125 per individual will receive an invitation in the mail for this exclusive event.
- 7:00 p.m.
- Hamilton Recital Hall & Joy Burns Plaza
Give to Lamont
Your gifts support and sustain the excellence of our programs and the talent of our students, faculty and staff. We appreciate your generous gift.
Levels of Giving
Donors at the following levels will be invited to exclusive donor appreciation events (recitals and Day at Lamont):
- Prelude One (individual) $80+
- Prelude Two (couple) $160+
Donors at these special levels will be invited to the "donor thank-you" events listed above, plus the Showcase Lamont Gala:
- Overture One (individual) $125+
- Overture Two (couple) $250+
- Chorus $500+
- Big Band $1,000+
- Kathak $2,500+
- Symphony $5,000+
- Opera $10,000+
- Encore $25,000+
- Ovation $50,000+
You may also make a recurring donation either monthly, yearly or quarterly.
Give by Phone: Call Chris Wiger at 303.871.6499
Text to Give: Text LAMONT to 41444
During my first year as President of the Lamont Society, our students triumphed on stage in concert after concert. When everything changed during the pandemic, students, faculty and staff made online classes work and even had time to make sure that Lamont Society appreciation events thrived with the online Lunch@Lamont series.
Mark E. Barczuk (MBA '88) President, Lamont Society
Now it's our turn to support them with our donations!
Interested in donating to one of our other departments, or CAHSS as a whole?
Contact
Jennifer Garner
Executive Director of Development
Tonya Kelly
Director of Development
Erin Dietrich
Director of Alumni Relations
