Biography

With the premiere of his 23-minutes orchestral work Unlocking in 2008, Fung Lam became not only the first composer commissioned to compose a new work specifically for BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music programme, but also the youngest Chinese composer ever to have been commissioned by the BBC.

Ranging from original concert and media works to various arrangements, sometimes involving both Western and Chinese instruments, his music has been performed around the world, including festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, BASBWE International Wind Festival, Soundwaves Festival, Second Glance Festival, Musicarama Festival, Le French May, Asian Composers’ League Asian Music Festivals in 2003, 2004 and 2007, and the inaugural BBC Electric Proms in 2006.

Performers of his music have included the BBC Philharmonic (with James MacMillan), BBC Concert Orchestra (with Charles Hazlewood, Robert Ziegler and John Wilson), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (with Li Xin-cao), Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (with Douglas Bostock), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (with Yip Wing-sie), Hong Kong Festival Wind Orchestra, Carducci Quartet, Grenzenlos, Halcyon, Ensemble TIMF, Chinese ensemble Silk String Quartet, singer Frances M Lynch, and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti.

Fung has provided music for various theatre productions, including the Japanese play Festival for the Fish in London in 2004.  He also wrote music for the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) TV documentary series Meteorology Series III in 2005, and Philharmonia Orchestra’s virtual orchestra installation at the South Bank Centre in London in 2006.  His music has received broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Radio New Zealand, and RTHK Radio 4.

Fung is experienced in working with students and young musicians.  In 2006, he was involved in BBC Concert Orchestra’s MusicLab project where he worked with students on his orchestration of Sigur Rós’s Glosoli, and in 2008 he was involved in another education project, again with the BBC Concert Orchestra, as part of BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music programme.

Born in Hong Kong in 1979, Fung currently resides and works in London.  His teachers have included Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Michael Zev Gordon.

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