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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 $600 to $1,200 depending on the length of the academy. Every December we run a Gifted Young Artist Bursary campaign searching for donations of $1,200 to provide two weeks of tuition for these artists.
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 $600 per week. Tuition for an eight-week residency, like the vocal residencies this past Spring, would be $4,800. If you provide a two-week (or more) residency for an artist, your name will be included in concert programs and you will receive free entry to one of their performances (barring fundraising galas).
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 take part in a fully-funded intensive residency staying a minimum of six weeks. The gifted artists who successfully apply to be LAMP Fellows receive funding to cover their full tuition, as well as funds to cover their accommodation and travel. Donations of $1,300 will sponsor a LAMP Fellow for one week; $7,800 sponsors a full Fellowship. If you sponsor a full Fellowship for an artist, their Fellowship will carry your name in promotional projects for “your” Fellow (concert programs, posters, social media posts, press releases) as well as on our website. You can also expect a thank you note from the artists as well as an invitation to all of their performances (including any fundraising galas they perform in).

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 ten years LAMP has been in existence: Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Richard Margison, Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, 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. The amount of donation varies somewhat depending on the artist; $10,000+ covers the cost of most of the attending faculty members. If you have a particular person in mind, or if you would like to find out about who is coming this year, next year and beyond please reach out and let us know!

Michelin are the main sponsors supporting LAMP’s outreach programme, providing annual funding toward the costs of ensuring free performances happen each year in schools throughout the region. Thank you Michelin!

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 faculty members and emerging artists, where they talk about who they are, how they came to be the artist they are today, and 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 part of your giving.

Concerts

Each year at LAMP there are two concert
series: the 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 in June, July and August including the Composition Academy, the NOW Festival, Early Music and Equilibrium with Barbara Hannigan. Some years we also host winter programming in February and March. While the two annual Concert Series each include several concerts, the exact number varies season to season and year to year. 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. You might like to sponsor one concert, a full concert series, or a full year of live performances at LAMP.

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
of LAMP academies: Spring and Autumn. The academies
that take place each season of each year are a monu-
mental task handled by our Artistic Directors, the Verona Quartet, and they begin 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. 2024 was largely Chamber Music, with Colin Carr, Jane Coop, Kim Kashkashian, the Verona Quartet, and early in 2025 Angela Hewitt - all coming to work with piano and string artists.

You may wish to sponsor an entire season of academies; perhaps just one favourite. Do you love baroque? You could sponsor an Early Music Academy. Is the future where it’s at? The NOW Festival, which includes Composition Academy, is dedicated entirely to new music. If your heart is with the cello, you might want to sponsor a Chamber Music Academy lead by Steven Isserlis. There are so many options.

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.