Angel Lam

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Angel Lam

Angel Lam On-Ki ( Chinese  林安淇 , Pinyin Lín Ānqí , Jyutping Lam 4 On 1 kei 4 , Cantonese  Lam On-Ki , born August 2, 1978 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese composer.

biography

Lam graduated from the Peabody Conservatory and Yale University . She has received scholarships from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund , the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong, and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University . Her teachers included Christopher Theofanidis , Aaron Jay Kernis and Martin Bresnick . Masterclass and tutoring: George Crumb , Poul Ruders , Christopher Rouse , George Tsontakis , Detlev Glanert , Ingram Marshall , James Primosch , Joel Hoffman , John Harbison , Brian Ferneyhough and Marc Dalbavie .

Lams compositions were u. a. listed in Hong Kong, China, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, France, Korea, Argentina and the USA. In 2006 she received a composition commission from the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall . The resulting piece, Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain, caught the attention of Yo-Yo Mas , who performed it with his Silk Road Ensemble on concert tours through the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Southeast Asia, Switzerland and China.

As a second commissioned work by Carnegie Hall, Sun, Moon, and Star was created in the following year under the mentorship of Osvaldo Golijov and Dawn Upshaw . In collaboration with the theater artist Martha Clarke , the music was created for a theater project for dance and visual projections. Additional compositions have been commissioned by the New York City's Greenwich Village Orchestra , the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Houston Chamber Choir at the American Masterpieces Festival .

In 2009 she was named "Artist of the Month" by Musical America magazine and "Yalie of the Week" by Yale University's Yale Alumni Magazine . For Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra she composed a cello concerto for the China Festival Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Cultur at Carnegie Hall. In 2010 she worked a. a. for Aldo Parisot's Yale Cellos , the Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival , the Minnesota Orchestra's Inside the Classics concert series and the Hong Kong Arts Festival .

Works

  • Love memo. Duet for flute and piano, 1998
  • The Suite for Orchestra. 1999
  • For a New Millennium. for wind quintet, 2000
  • Dreams of them enter, like men alive, into the maiden room of their lovers ... for Guzheng and processor, 2000
  • An Image of Mercury gliding across the Sun. for piano and electronics, 2000
  • Dialogue with the Old Poet. for bassoon and Max Msp program, 2001
  • Dream Sketches. for string quartet, 2001
  • Imagery of Water. for guitar, harp, vibraphone or crotales and double bass, 2002
  • Symphonic Journal: Ambush from Ten Directions. for large orchestra and narrator, 2002
  • Beyond the rainbow. for soprano, tenor or countertenor and baritone, double bass, narrator and piano, 2003
  • Through the interwoven growth. for wind quintet, 2003
  • Red Peony Sky in Mid-June. for flute, clarinet, cello, vibraphone and crotales , 2003
  • Therefore We Do Not Lose Heart. for female choir a cappella, 2004
  • Softly I speak to you, of Orchids and a Dream. for soprano, harp, piano and string orchestra, 2005
  • Secrets and Ice Garden. for piano quintet, 2005
  • Memories from My Previous Lives. for orchestra, 2005-06
  • Silk Road, Silk Road. for harmonica quintet, 2006
  • Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain. for shakuhachi , violin, cello, double bass, marimba and percussion, 2006
  • Merry Go Round. for mixed choir a cappella, 2007
  • Midnight Run. for choreography, music and visual projections, 2007
  • Sun, Moon, and Star. for two sopranos, violin, cello, double bass, percussion and piano, 2007
  • Oh stars, from the Abyss. for female choir, strings, piano and percussion, 2008
  • Her Thousand Years Dance. for shakuhachi, cello, percussion and string orchestra, 2007
  • In Search of Seasons. for string quartet and orchestra, 2007, for orchestra, 2008
  • The Burning Babe. for mixed choir, organ, strings, wind instruments and percussion, 2008
  • Avalokiteshvara's hand. for solo percussion, 2009
  • Awakening from a Disappearing Garden. for solo cello, narrator and orchestra, 2009

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