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
Wednesday, February 5
Lamont Symphony Orchestra
Special guest conductor Bryant Denmark opens the evening with William Grant Still's Serenade, then vocalists from Lamont Opera Theatre will join the orchestra to perform a selection of beloved arias and ensembles. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major, an early work full of exuberance, humor, and vitality.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Friday, February 7
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Zoe Weiss, viol & David Miller, viol
Play This "Pashenat": Duets for Viols
The program takes its title from an early English spelling of “passionate,” found in a performance instruction from Tobias Hume.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Friday, February 7
Mervine Small Group & The End All
Our jazz small groups present what they've been working on so far this quarter. The group coached by Gabriel Mervine is joined by student group The End All, coached by Peter Stoltzman.
- 5:00pm
- Williams Recital Salon
Saturday, February 8
Inclusive Composers Concert
Join us for this student-run concert of works by composers historically marginalized in music. This includes composers who are female, queer, trans, nonbinary, neurodivergent, and/or composers of color.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Wednesday, February 12
Lamont Wind Ensemble
The Lamont Wind Ensemble celebrates Black History Month with music by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Omar Thomas, and more. “Dual Stride” by Kevin Day features soloists Richard Harris (trombone) and David Byrd-Marrow (horn). The final work on the program, "Come Sunday" by Omar Thomas, is a gospel revival work emulating the role of the Hammond Organ in Church services.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Thursday, February 13
Lamont Choirs
Experience the transcendent beauty of J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, performed by the Lamont Chorale. The program will also feature a world premiere by M. Roger Holland, II in honor of Lamont's Centennial.
- 7:30pm
- Gates Concert Hall
Friday, February 14
Santiago Small Group & Judith Hindle
Lamont small groups explore the canon of jazz and/or American popular music, as well as original student compositions and arrangements.
- 5:00pm
- Williams Recital Salon
Sunday, February 16
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Basil Vendryes, viola & Damien Krzyzek, piano
Join Vendryes and Krzyzek for a program of important but lesser known works for viola and piano, including the Intermezzo by Nino Rota and the Sonata by Eric Ewazen.
- 5:00pm
- 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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