With a world-class faculty and concert venues, the Lamont School of Music is widely recognized as a premier music school. Students from across the world audition to study at Lamont, where they gain the skills and experience necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic arts world. Our commitment to excellence includes a multi-genre curriculum and award-winning performers engaging with audiences from across the Rocky Mountain West.
Our students experience and participate in Denver’s unrivaled metropolitan arts environment, where professional performing arts companies offer inspiration and performance opportunities. Our graduates pursue professional careers as outstanding performing artists, composers, conductors, entrepreneurs, recording professionals and scholars.
Whether you are a prospective student, an audience member or an arts supporter, we welcome you!
Lamont School of Music Centennial
We invite you to join us during this very special year: the 100th anniversary of the Lamont School of Music. Over its first century, Lamont grew from a modest conservatory into a school of national prominence.
Click to read a brief history, peruse historical photos, and see upcoming events related to the Centennial!
Lamont Concerts & Events
Tuesday, October 15
Guest Artist Recital: Reverón Trio
The Reverón Piano Trio’s main goal is to introduce audiences to underrepresented music from Latin America alongside contemporary and standard repertoire. They'll perform works by Manuel María Ponce, Miguel del Aguila, and Ricardo Lorenz.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Tuesday, October 15
Indigenous People's Day Event
Cheyenne and Arapaho musicians will visit Lamont and share a performance for Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024. There will be a drum performance of Chief White Antelope’s song, a traditional Cheyenne Kitfox Society song that he sang as militia descended on the Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment at Sand Creek.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 16
Lamont Wind Ensemble
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a powerful and meaningful performance by the Lamont Wind Ensemble, in a special side-by-side concert with the talented students of the Denver School of the Arts. The centerpiece of the evening is Mnicakmun (The Sounds of Water), a profound and evocative work by Indigenous composer Will Linthicum-Blackhorse.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Sunday, October 20
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Igor Pikayzen, violin
Award-winning Russian-American violinist Igor Pikayzen is confidently establishing himself as one of the most prodigious and in-demand soloists of his generation. Join him for an evening of works by Kreisler, Bartok, Khachaturian, Ysaÿe and Ernst.
- 4:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 23
Guest artist recital: Donald Berman, piano
A multidimensional pianist, pedagogue, and scholar, Donald Berman has won tremendous acclaim for his "stupendous abilities, both athletic and intellectual" (Boston Sunday Globe) and performances hailed as "stunning, adventurous, and substantive" (New York Times).
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Thursday, October 24
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Jeremy Reynolds, clarinet & Margaret McDonald, piano
Composer Jenni Brandon will be in attendance at this recital and will do a short presentation on her music before the performance.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
The Spirituals Project
The Spirituals Project is a community organization dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the spirituals, through musical, educational, and social justice work in our community.
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