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Interviews and publicity excerpts:
Yale University Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Composer interview and introduction
to her new work in 2022
CASHFLOW magazine featured interview, Spring 2022 issue
published by Composers and Authors
Society of Hong Kong (CASH)
RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)
Broadcast and composer feature on
Fine Music Magazine, 2020
Aaron Copland House Foundation musical Gala,
New York City
Tokyo’s Suntory Hall performance (above), and Iwakuni City Concert Hall performance (below)
Yo-Yo Ma and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra premieres her work
“Awakening from a Disappearing Garden,” conducted by Robert Spano
Hub New Music Ensemble U.S. tour
First performance at Blue Sage Center for the Arts, Colorado
Awarded the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and League of American Orchestras orchestral commission, to write a new work to be performed by five American orchestras in the 2023-24 season, with the premiere at the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern.
Yale University Norfolk Chamber Music Festival commission work to be premiered by Pipa virtuoso Wu Man and artistic director Melvin Chen’s Norfolk ensemble, supported by the Desi Foundation Musical Bridge commission
Angel will curate and organize a concert program at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall, titled “Hong Kong Journeys”, co-presented by the 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York
Naxos Record release of her solo guitar work “Little snow,” performed by Guitar Foundation of America 2021 International Concert Artist First prize winner Bokyung Byun
Opera America Discovery Award recipient, grant award to compose a new opera, to be workshopped in New York City.
2021 and prior
Guitar Foundation of America commission work 2021
Publication of “Little Snow” in GFA’s Spotlight Series, Vol. I
Selected as an official repertoire piece for the International Concert Artists Competition Semifinals round in 2021. Premiered by GFA international mentee Jitsupa Petchmark.
Davisson Duo guitar commission work, 2021-2022
Hub New Music Ensemble commission work and U.S. tour 2019-2022
Aaron Copland House Foundation commission work and U.S. tour, 2017-2020
Aaron Copland House Foundation Gala music event, New York City, 2019
Commission work for violinist Patrick Yim, 2019-2020
Artist-in-residence at Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music
Festival, Germany
New Music for Strings Festival, Iceland
Faculty recital at Baptist University, Hong Kong
West Kowloon Cultural District Mixtape CD Album release
Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Awardees Association and
Musica Del Cuore
New work for live music and dance
3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong
Duo for marimba and pipa
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland. August 2019
AANMI Japan tour: two compositions performed in seven venues
Suntory Hall, Tokyo
Nijojo Castle, Kyoto*
Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto
National Museum, Fukuoka
Hiroshima University Sataka Hall, Hiroshima
Ryusenji, Oita
Pastoral Hall, Iwakuni
* Opening concert presented by Kyoto’s mayor Kadokawa
A Play with Music
written and composed by Angel Lam
Semi-staged performances
THEATRE ROW * 410 W. 42nd St., New York
FLUSHING TOWN HALL Queens, New York
Readings Open to Public *
Bruce Mitchell Room, 520 8th Avenue, New York
* featuring actors Paulina Yeung and Pedro Ka'awaloa featured in
the Broadway tour of The King and I
* Eric Elizaga, Mandarin Wu, Fenton Li, Marcus Crawford Guy,
Dinh James Doan, Xiaoqing Zhang and Briana Sakamoto Tipp
Bridging the Gap: National Sawdust Theatre, Brooklyn
Curated by Robert Sirota. June 4, 2017
Performances and panel discussion with music critic Steve Smith
Museum of Chinese American (MOCA), New York
Presenting Songs from “Lost in Shanghai”
Concert hosted and sponsored by Bloomberg News
May 24, 2016
Composer for Off-Broadway play “A Dream of Red Pavilions”
Performance begins January 23 through February 14, 2016.
Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St. New York
See press PLAYBILL "A Dream of Red Pavilions Opens in NY Today"
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York premiere
Kyo-Shin-An Arts commission a new work for shakuhachi, koto, voice and cello
Premiered by guest shakuhachi master Akihito Obama from Japan and
NYC-based DUO YUMENO
Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto and voice) and Hikaru Tamaki (cello)
November 21, 2015
A play-in-progress
Performance Reading at Pan Asia Repertory Theater, New York
Performing an excerpt of her musical play
April 4 and December 14, 2015
A Centennial Celebration for Peabody Dance of the Peabody Institute
Commission work “Dear Mother” live music for dance
Inspired by three mother-daughter stories, March 2015
Original music by Angel Lam
Choreographed by Constance Dinapoli
Visual Art by Pat Alexander
Costumes by Kurina Sohn
MATA Festival Gala Honoring Robert Sirota and Steve Smith
As Robert Sirota's former student I'm honored to be a part of this
Gala Concert by MATA Festival, at the Tibet House in NYC.
November 2014
Contributing a performance of Diary from 1942...for violin and
pipa with sound track
Special thanks to Zhou Yi on Pipa and Cheho Lam on Violin
Of Days and Nights live music for dance premiere
Dance theater with live music and narration, inspired by a story
from 1942. Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Hong Kong
Academy for Performing Arts
Hong Kong and Shanghai tour, May-June 2014
Music and narration by Angel Lam
Choreographed by Australian choreographer John Utans
and Chinese choreographer Sheng Pei-Qi,
Department of Contemporary Dance and Chinese Dance at
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
“Memories from my Previous Lives” for orchestra, premieres in Chicago.
Performed by The Northwest Symphony, conducted by
Kim Diehnelt, with an introduction by the composer, and pre-
concert talk with composer and conductor. January 2014
New Album release, Audio Network, London
Japanese Intrigue
"delicate yet powerful music, Japanese instrumental performances"
See featured BLOG
Interlochen Center for the Arts commission work,
“Color of the Mind”
For symphonic winds and film
In collaboration with the Interlochen Center symphonic band director Dr. Matthew Schlomer and filmmaker Mida Chu, the project is to create a new music composition and a short film, based on true events from the composer's childhood.
Silk Road Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma celebrates 15th Anniversary
“Empty Mountain Spirit Rain” performs at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman
Stage, and U.S. West Coast + Canada tour 2013
Exciting reviews of “Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain” from the U.S. tour:
Los Angeles Review
San Francisco Review
University of California at Santa Barbara Review
New York Times Review
Ghost Wife
Play with music
Original music, story and documentary visual projections
Written and performed by Angel Lam
2012-13 Performances:
HERE Dorothy B. Williams Theater, New York (Soho)
The Tank Theater, New York (near Times Square)
The China Institute of America, New York (Upper East Side)
University of Southern California, Irvine Symphony Orchestra Performance
“Her Thousand Years Dance”
March 15 and 16, 8 pm, Irvine Barclay Theater
Conducted by Stephen Tucker
Featuring soloist Kojiro Umezaki on shakuhachi and Maggie Parkins on cello
with narration/movements by Angel Lam
AANMI Japan tour - Angel’s two compositions performed in seven venues and six cities: Kyoto, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Iwakuni, Oita and Fukuoka. (Above) Opening concert presented by Kyoto’s mayor Kadokawa (center) at Nijojo Castle.