Performances
The Box Office is located in Room A121 across from the Kay Schomp Theatre. Box office hours are two hours before each performance. Online tickets can be purchased 24/7, but will end ONE hour before each performance. Additionally, unless the performance is SOLD OUT, any remaining tickets can be purchased over-the-counter at the Box Office in the hour before each performance.
If you are not here by curtain time, the Denver School of the Arts reserves the right to resell uncollected or unused tickets to patrons waiting at the box office. If you are unable to use your tickets for the performance purchased, you may donate them back for others to use or exchange them for another performance. No refunds for unused tickets are available.
Those wishing to sign up as volunteer ushers for a complementary ticket should call the box office at 720-424-1713 to leave a message.
SENIOR DANCE PROJECTS
THURSDAY, December 4 – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY, December 5 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DANCE STUDIO
For many of these talented Seniors, these performances are the culmination of seven years of study, practice, performing, and perfecting. Tonight you witness what they have learned, how they have heightened their skill, how they have learned to even pass on their talent, and what collaboration means to them. This group of soon-to-graduate Dance majors have created an original piece, found a theme, chosen the music, and set it on a group of their colleagues. It’s a magical thing. Wouldn’t you like to be there when it happens?
STREAMING OPTION FOR SENIOR DANCE PROJECTS
THURSDAY, December 4 – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY, December 5 – 7:00 pm
ALL TICKETS – $10.00
STREAMING FROM THE DSA DANCE STUDIO
This option is for STREAMING from your home only. These tickets will not gain entry into the live event.
For many of these talented Seniors, these performances are the culmination of seven years of study, practice, performing, and perfecting. Tonight you witness what they have learned, how they have heightened their skill, how they have learned to even pass on their talent, and what collaboration means to them. This group of soon-to-graduate Dance majors have created an original piece, found a theme, chosen the music, and set it on a group of their colleagues. It’s a magical thing. Wouldn’t you like to be there when it happens?
JAZZ WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA Fundraiser –
SATURDAY, December 6 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ADULTS – $35.00
STUDENTS – $20.00
DSA South Event Center – 1900 Olive St
WEBSITE LISTED BELOW FOR TICKETS
Hello DSA Band Families and Friends,
We’re just two weeks away from our First Annual DSA Jazz Brunch on Saturday, December 6th, and we need your help to make this event a huge success! With Thanksgiving coming up, it’s the perfect time to share the event with friends, family, and visiting guests. Please help us spread the word far and wide across the school and broader community.
This will be our only Winter Jazz concert, featuring both Middle and High School performers. Let’s fill the room for our incredible students!
The Band of Parents has been working hard to bring this exciting first annual event to life!
We’re aiming to raise $10,000, and we’re off to a great start with fantastic market vendors, delicious brunch offerings, generous donations, and an impressive lineup of student performances. Let’s make this our most successful community event yet!
How You Can Help This Week
- BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY and encourage others to join you!
- INVITE friends and relatives during Thanksgiving gatherings.
- SHARE the event with families across ALL DSA majors.
All proceeds from the Jazz Brunch and Winter Market support student travel and enrichment, including the 2026 NYC trip and the Middle School adventure to Elitches!
Thank you for helping us finish strong in our end-of-year fundraising push, and wishing you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving!
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE – Orchestra
MONDAY, December 8 – 7:00 pm
FREE Event
DSA Concert Hall
Denver School of the Arts has a class devoted to the study and performance of Chamber Music. These students will be holding a concert to highlight what they are learning. The class is taught and conducted by Orchestra Guest Artist Evan De Long. Please support these students performing a FREE concert event for your enjoyment.
VIDEO CINEMA ARTS and GUITAR COLLABORATION
TUESDAY, December 9 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Schomp Theater
Movies and music go hand in hand. Witness how much you enjoy these student-produced short films with a little guitar music thrown in for good measure. This is the VCA students Fall Film Festival premiering what they have been working on this semester. Is there a Spielberg in the making? A Chu or even a Tarentino? You won’t know until you check them out
BEAUTIFUL DECEMBER – Vocal Concert
TUESDAY, December 9 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA
Be sure to join the DSA Treble Choir, Chorale, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble on this Beautiful December evening, as we sing and celebrate our way through some favorite songs of the season! This performance will present a diverse palette of repertoire that surely reaches across our entire audience.
Some favorites from our singers include Ocho Kandelikas (Ladino Song for Chanukah), jazzy arrangements of Jolly Old St. Nicholas and O Christmas Tree, and the inspiration for our performance, Beautiful December. In preparation for the CMEA concert in January, Chorale is also pleased to present two more French Canadian choral pieces, J’entends le moulin and Terre-Neuve.
The performance will also include combined selections, student conductors, and spotlight soloists.
Concessions will be available before the performance and at intermission.
WHOSE STORIES DO WE TELL? PART TWO: Merry Riffmas – Vocal Concert
WEDNESDAY, December 10 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA
This concert is the second part of this year’s series, “Whose Stories Do We Tell?”, Part 2 – Merry Riffmas! The concert will feature many improvised solos from students riffing on new and well-known holiday tunes. You will hear music in Hebrew, Spanish, and Latin with caroling in the lobby, during intermission, and after the concert. We have also prepared new takes on old holiday songs you know and love.
The texts of the songs honor music from the 16th Century, the ballad of a former enslaved woman who walked the Oregon trail and later purchased her freedom, and the contemporary music of modern day performers like Jennifer Hudson. Of course, we include the classic holiday audience sing-a long Silent Night.
CREATIVE WRITING-PIANO-GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Schomp Theatre
DSA’s Middle School Creative Writing students have joined forces with the Middle School Piano and Guitar students to create a night full of musical poetry. Each Creative Writing student has crafted a spoken word poem to capture a personal experience, an emotional event, or how they feel about the world they are inheriting. Each Piano and Guitar student has composed original music to complement their written work. You can only imagine how moving this will be. Please join us for this amazing evening.
STREAMING OPTION for CREATIVE WRITING-PIANO-GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
TICKETS – $10.00
STREAMING from DSA Schomp Theatre
This option is for streaming only. It does allow entrance to the live event.
DSA’s Middle School Creative Writing students have joined forces with the Middle School Piano and Guitar students to create a night full of musical poetry. Each Creative Writing student has crafted a spoken word poem to capture a personal experience, an emotional event, or how they feel about the world they are inheriting. Each Piano and Guitar student has composed original music to complement their written work. You can only imagine how moving this will be. Please join us for this amazing evening.
MOON OF WINTER – Band Concert
THURSDAY, December 11 – 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
Our Middle School Jazz group starts the program with odes to winter: “Sleigh Ride” – “Let it Snow!” – and Olaf’s daydream song from FROZEN about what it could be like for a snowman “In Summer.”
The Middle School Concert Band follows with “Moon of Winter,” Canada’s oldest Christmas Carol. It is followed by Richard Saucedo’s beautiful “Lullaby in the Mirror.” A haunting piece that will stay with you long after the music has ceased. Composer Randaell Standridge shows his sense of humor in the “Carman Christmas” by combining Bizet’s opera CARMEN with contemporary holiday songs in a mash up that will make you smile.
The High School Wind Ensemble joins in the fun with the “Downey Overture,” which features Latin rhythms and themes. Jackie Kennedy commissioned Leonard Bernstein to write a musical piece for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971. He wrote MASS which includes a variety of musical genres and this “Simple Song” that celebrates religion with a quiet approach to prayer and faith.
This will be followed by Sadler’s “Action Brass” that sounds like it was written as score for an action film. Next comes “Apollo Unleashed” which uses the image of the powerful ancient God of the Sun as inspiration for its blazing energy. They will be finishing with Sousa’s rousing “Who’s Who in the Navy,” written in 1920 as an homage to Native American Tecumseh, whose figurehead adorns a hall at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
The Band Boosters will be hosting an International Food and Treats potluck before the concert. Plan on coming hungry and enjoying a dinner of family favorites.
2ND QUARTER VISUAL ARTS SHOW and GUITAR COLLABORATION
THURSDAY, December 11 – 5:30 pm
FREE event
DSA Gallery and Main Hall
The Visual Arts majors have been hard at work honing their craft in new and familiar genre’s of art. Walking the halls of DSA is similar to being in a modern art museum with changes every six weeks. Come enjoy the NEW art while being serenaded by our talented Guitar students. No cost – no pressure – just enjoyment.
SONGS IN THE SNOW with the COLORADO BRASS – Band
FRIDAY, December 12 – 7:30 pm
Tickets available at link below
DSA Concert Hall
- Tickets: DSA&ColoBrass Tickets
This joint concert between the noted COLORADO BRASS will bring the best of the Brass together, featuring the professional musicians side-by-side with our Band majors. A not-to-be-missed experience for both students and proud family and friends.
WINTER ORCHESTRA CONCERT
SATURDAY, December 13- 7:00 pm
ADULTS – $25.00
SENIORS – $20.00
STUDENTS – $10.00
DSA Concert Hall
| The program for this evening consists of a variety of compositions from classical and contemporary composers. Starting the program is the popular FOUR SEASONS by Vivaldi, published in 1725. The suite consists of a concerto for each season with the orchestra celebrating the return of “Spring” in this performance. This is followed by Bela Bartok’s ROUMANIAN FOLK TALES which takes us to a remote countryside using transcribed Transylvanian folk melodies. LIEUTENANT KIJE by Prokofiev was originally written to accompany the Russian movie by the same title in 1935 and has been used since in other soundtracks of military movies. ROUNDS is a piece for piano and string orchestra written by Jessie Montgomery, a prolific contemporary American composer. Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem “Four Quartets,” ROUNDS explores the interconnectiveness of all living things. |
| The program returns to Bartok for the final number. His DIVERTIMENTO is part of the genre of music composed to be light entertainment for social occasions. This piece was composed in 1939 just before Bartok fled Germany to escape WWII and emigrated to America. The orchestra will perform two of the three sections of the work – “Allegro Ma Non Troppo” and “Allegro Assai.” |