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
Sunday, January 12
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Matthew Zalkind, cello & Damien Krzyzek, piano
Praised for his “impressive refinement, eloquent phrasing, and singing tone” by The New York Times, American cellist Matthew Zalkind regularly performs throughout the United States and abroad as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician.
- 4:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Saturday, January 18
Oboe Studio Recital
Join us for this performance by students from the studio of Ian Wisekal; all oboists receive instruction from both Ian Wisekal and Sarah Bierhaus. Featuring works by Beethoven, Beach, W.F. Bach, Koechlin and more.
- 1:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Friday, January 24
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Tribute to Chick Corea
Chick Corea, widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz, was a pianist, composer, and bandleader. He was a pioneer of jazz fusion, blending jazz with rock, classical, and Latin music, and was a key member of Miles Davis's band during the late 1960s, contributing to the birth of the fusion movement.
Join four members of Lamont’s jazz faculty for an evening in honor of this jazz great!
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Sunday, January 26
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Duo Semaphore, pianists Rachael Hutchings & Hukum Singh Khalsa
Don’t miss this performance by Lamont’s most popular piano duo! Works by Mendelssohn, Reinecke, Greenbaum, Jaëll, and more.
- 4:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Thursday, January 30
Winter Opera Showcase
Join us for this performance by students from the voice department. This all-French program will feature music from Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Les pêcheurs de perles, Carmen, Cendrillon, Lakmé, La Périchole, L'enfant et les sortilèges, and Roméo et Juliette.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Recital Hall
Friday, January 31
Faculty Artists Recital Series: Linda Wang, violin & Friends
In honor of Lamont’s Centennial, Linda Wang will be joined by the full Lamont string faculty for Mendelssohn’s Octet (1825) and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (1725).
- 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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