Discipline: Music Composition

Angel Lam

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Angel Lam worked on her music theater composition for the 2012 Hong Kong Arts Festival, titled A Man and A Woman. In 2009, she received a Carnegie Hall commission to compose a cello and orchestra work for soloist Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which premiered in Atlanta Symphony Hall and New York Carnegie Hall as part of the Carnegie Hall China Festival: Ancient Paths, Modern Voices. From 2013 to 2015, she was commissioned to compose the multimedia dance work Dear Mother for the centennial celebration of the historic dance institution Peabody Dance; Of Days and Nights for the 30th anniversary of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts; and wrote the music and story to the film Color of the Mind, commissioned and performed live by the Interlochen Center for the Arts Symphonic Band, directed by award-winning director Mida Chu (Interlochen alumni). The latter was an official selection at the Monarch International Film Festival, Montery Bay, California.

Studios

Watson

Angel Lam worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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