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Awarded the League of American Orchestras Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation commission, to write a full length 30 minutes orchestral work to be performed by three professional orchestras in the 2025 - 26 season, and a 8-10 minute piece to be performed by five orchestras in the 2024 - 25 season.

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.

Yale University Norfolk Chamber Music Festival

Composer interview and introduction

to her new work in 2022

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

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

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.