Biography

Fung Lam (born 1979) is the first Hong Kong composer and the youngest Chinese composer ever to have been commissioned by the BBC Radio 3, for whom he has written three orchestral works to date.  He was also the first composer commissioned to compose a new work specifically for BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music program.

His musical output ranges widely from original concert and media works to various collaborations, and has been performed around the world by many prestigious performers including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, and other chamber ensembles and soloists.

His music will be featured twice in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2010/11 season.  In September 2010, his newly commissioned work Rong will be premiered under their musical director Edo de Waart at the World Expo in Shanghai, China, while his BBC-commissioned Unlocking will receive its Asian premiere in Hong Kong in May 2011 under their Associate Conductor Perry So.

His music, sometimes involving both Western and Chinese instruments, has been featured at festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, BASBWE International Wind Festival, Soundwaves Festival, Second Glance Festival, Musicarama, Le French May, Asian Music Festival and Pacific Music Festival.  He was a musical director at the inaugural BBC Electric Proms in 2006, collaborating with the BBC Concert Orchestra and an indie band.

He 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.

He is experienced in working with students and young musicians.  In 2006, he was involved in BBC Concert Orchestra’s MusicLab outreach 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 program where students were guided to create a new collaborative work inspired by his work Unlocking.

His teachers have included Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Michael Zev Gordon.

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