Press
REVIEWS
South China Morning Post on Illumination
“It’s a slowly morphing, 12-minute piece that, in most young composers’ hands, would sound as if it was wandering around a room with no exit, but Lam shows an instinctive feel for when to nudge things along. Using minimal harmonic and melodic material, the elemental shifts came right on cue to sustain attention.”
CASHFLOW, Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong on Inner Light - Homage to Mark Rothko
“... Lam’s Inner Light, however, provides an added dimension of the expression of emotions from a symphonic wind orchestra ... Though barely noticeable, the layers of tone colours create huge tensions, while the piano contribution represents the suppressed and struggled character throughout the piece … Unlike most works for symphonic wind orchestra, Inner Light expresses the most sophisticated emotion which is the pressure that inescapably originates from the trivialities of modern life ... Inner Light illustrated the fact that a symphonic wind orchestra can express inner and deep emotions and is not restricted to merely creating sensational and superficial sounds and emotions.”
Asian Music Festival Final Report, Chou Wen-Chung, composer, on Inner Light - Homage to Mark Rothko
“There were some excellent scores, including ... Inner Light by Fung Lam ... (a) thoughtful and effective piece ...”
The Independent on Caged
“Fung Lam used a backing track that sounded like crowds in a subway station in pursuit of his successful evocation of claustrophobia, which had the cello alternating a nagging main idea with dreamlike withdrawals.”
Sydney Morning Herald on Amitabha
“Fung Lam's Amitabha was a still pentatonic meditation, like a morning breeze over quiet water.”
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Hong Kong Cable TV’s Top Ten Outstanding Young Musicians series - Featured composer (2010)
BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music - Featured composer (2009)
BBC World News’s Visionaries TV series - Contributor on Toru Takemitsu episode (2008)
BBC Radio 3’s Twenty Minutes - Contributor on Publish and Be Damned? (2006)
Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 4 - Guest-presenter on a classical music programme (8 episodes), presenting a selection of his favourite contemporary pieces as well as his own compositions. (2005)
SELECTED INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES
Esquire magazine (HK) in July 2011
Esquire magazine (HK) in May 2011
Apple Daily (HK) on 15 September 2010
Hong Kong Economic Journal on 10 September 2010
A.M. Post (HK) in August 2010
Cathay Pacific’s club magazine Quarter 3, 2009
Hong Kong Economics Times on 27 December 2008 READ
South China Morning Post (HK) on 16 December 2008 READ (subscription required)
Online composition diary for BBC
Composition diary for the BBC Radio 3 website, on his orchestral work Unlocking - READ
Ming Pao Weekly magazine (HK) in 2007 READ
Wen Wei Po newspaper (HK) on in 2007 READ
Campaign magazine (UK) in 2006 “Brand New Sound” feature, as a media composer - READ
CASHFLOW magazine (HK) in 2005, Issue 46 On his Israel trip in 2004
CASHFLOW magazine (HK) in 2004 On his Inner Light - Homage to Mark Rothko
