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There are many other ways you can assist or support artists attending Lamp. If you are interested in support young and emerging artists please contact us. Thank you for making Lamp a part of your life!

Help the Artists

The artists who attend Lamp are on the very cusp of launching their
careers. No longer recipients of student loans to assist with covering
their bills, they are now in the early stages of paying back those
debts while also trying to earn enough money to cover their living costs. For the typical artist this means additional training - so essential to launching their career - is quite simply unaffordable. Donations to artists go directly toward assisting them cover their costs attending Lamp: tuition, travel, accommodation and other living costs can be included.

Gifted Young Artist Bursaries. These bursaries are awarded to young and emerging artists who come to Lamp for one or two week academies, and help offset the cost of their tuition, which is $500 to $1,000 depending on the academy.
Emerging Artist Residencies. This funding is reserved for artists coming to Lamp for residencies lasting anywhere from two to eight weeks. This assistance covers all or part of their tuition which varies depending on the length of their residency; typically $500 per week. Tuition for an eight-week residency, like the vocal residencies this past Spring, would be $4,000.
Fellowships. New in 2022, Lamp Fellows are the elite of the emerging artists applying to come to Lamp. These extraordinary emerging artists apply for the opportunity to come to Lamp as part of this fully-funded intensive residency and stay a minimum of six weeks, however some fellowships will last up to ten weeks or even longer. The lucky and gifted artists who successfully apply to be Lamp Fellows receive funding to cover their full tuition, as well as their accommodation and travel. The value to each participant is $1,100 per week; the nine-week string residencies offered in Spring of 2023 are $9,900 per artist.

For more information or to connect and make arrangements for your gift please contact us.

Thank you for making Lamp a part of your giving!

Bring Faculty

Is there a particular faculty member you would like to see at
Lamp? Our programming is mapped out three years in
advance, and it is possible to sponsor a faculty member
coming to Lamp. We have had some truly inspirational faculty members here over the eight years Lamp has been in existence: Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Richard Margison, and of course Barbara Hannigan returns each year to lead her Equilibrium program. Donations directed toward our faculty cover their fees, travel and accommodation. As a sponsor of a particular faculty member, you will be invited to attend their performance as our guest and have an opportunity to meet the faculty member. You will be acknowledged as a major donor on our website, as well as on concert programmes, posters and all promotion for that faculty member’s academy and any performances they direct and/or appear in. If you have a particular person in mind, or if you would like to find out about who is coming in 2023, 2024 and beyond please reach out and let us know!

In the Community

The outreach programme at Lamp is something we are very proud
of. Everyone who comes to Lamp to lead or take part in academies is
a part of our outreach; providing free in-person concerts at local
schools, daycares and care facilities, as well as ‘by donation’ and free concerts in our concert hall open to the public at large. The cost associated with making these appearances possible includes not only the staff and artists’ time involved in organizing and performing at the event, but the very real cost of transportation of artists and instruments, as well as the costs of printed materials like programmes and stickers for children. These performances also sometimes requires vehicle rentals if transportation of our mobile piano is required.

Perhaps you wish to sponsor a Lamp performance in a particular school in your community, or a care facility that is close to your heart. You might also like to sponsor Lamp’s “A Little Light Music” concerts; these free concerts on Wednesday nights give the audience an “up close and personal” interaction with Lamp’s faculty members and emerging artists, where they talk about who they are, how they came to be the artist they are today, and they’ll answer questions from the audience, all mixed in with some of their favourite music that they like to share the most.

There are other options as well: sponsoring community concerts or having Lamp artists appear at your workplace or other venue. There are many ways you can bring music to the community, please get in touch to discuss how you can make this happen.

For more information or to connect and make arrangements for your gift please contact us. Thank you for making Lamp a part of your life!

Concerts

Each year at Lamp there are two concert
series: Spring Concert Series which runs from
April until June and the Autumn Concert
Series which runs from September until November. In addition to those two series there is summer programming which happens each year including the Composition Academy, the NOW Festival and Equilibrium with Barbara Hannigan. While the two annual Concert Series each include several concerts, the exact number varies season to season and year to year. For instance in 2020 the Autumn Concert Series included 36 concerts while Autumn 2022 included only 14. Each concert incurs substantial costs from the production of promotional documents and programmes, to advertising costs, tuning of instruments, cleaning and setting the concert hall as well as the time of the performers and staff to make it all happen.

There are so very many ways your gift can help bring music to Lamp, to Lunenburg, to Nova Scotia. please contact us. Thank you for so much for thinking about Lamp; we know too well that there is an endless list of people and organizations needing financial assistance. We truly appreciate your consideration.

Academies

As with the concert series, there are two distinct seasons at Lamp for
academies: Spring and Autumn. The academies that take place
each season of each year are a monumental task handled entirely by our Artistic Director, Burt Wathen, and he begins this work at least three years in advance.

Each season has its own theme. Perhaps the theme is vocal, as it was in the Spring of 2022 when we had Gianni Fabbrini lead the Rossini Academy to perform La Cenerentola; Will Crutchfield leading a Bel Canto Academy and Richard Margison and his wife directing a cast of vocal residents to perform La Bohème. In Spring of 2023 the theme will be Chamber Music, and we will have Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, James Sommerville and many other faculty members coming to work with string and wind artists.

While sponsoring a faculty member means your gift is being used specifically to assist with the costs of that one faculty member; sponsoring an academy means you are helping in many other ways. From the concert, to producing programmes, promotional activities, artists, and even the after party for the members of the academy; you will be an important part of making all of these things come together.