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Sydney born pianist Andrea Lam began her musical training at the age of five. At thirteen, she won the ABC Quest Competition Viewers’ Choice Award and performed with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. In recent years, she has given over sixty solo performances with orchestras in Australia, the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. She has worked with renowned conductors including Edo de Waart, Michael Christie, Alan Gilbert, Christopher Hogwood, Marcus Stenz, and Lawrence Leighton Smith in such venues as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Town Hall, Government House (Sydney), Melbourne Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall (New York), Merkin Hall (New York), New York Steinway Hall, Yale University Woolsey Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall.
In Australia, Andrea has performed with all major Australian orchestras (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra). Two nationally televised programs featured Andrea, including “Andrea’s Concerto”, documenting her life as a young pianist and ending with her performance of Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with The Queensland Orchestra. Andrea was a featured artist in the 1999 and 2000 Sydney Festival where she performed for an audience of 150,000.
For four weeks from March to April 2006, Andrea Lam performed Mozart concerti to acclaim in ten performances as part of a four-city Australian tour with Edo de Waart as conductor. She returned in September as soloist touring with The Queensland Orchestra for six performances in five regional centres. Highlights of the 2007-08 season included performances in Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City, a recital for the Abbotsholme Arts Society Series in the UK, and a tour in El Salvador.
In 2004, Andrea Lam graduated from the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Boris Berman. At Yale, she won the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and the Yale Chamber Music Competition. Her studies there were generously assisted by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Foundation for Young Australians. Andrea is a passionate chamber musician and participated in the Yellow Barn Festival in 2005 and 2006. She has also been a winner of the Young Performer of the Year Award (Keyboard) in Australia and the Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant in the United States. In 2009, she returns to Australia for concerts with The Queensland Orchestra and recital appearances in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand.