Ken Lam - Short Resume

Current Positions

  • Principal Conductor, Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra
  • Artistic Director, Hong Kong Voices
  • Director, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Chorus
  • Assistant Conductor, Peabody Singers

Principal Teachers

  • Gustav Meier, Markand Thakar (Peabody Institute)
  • David Zinman and Murry Sidlin (American Academy of Conducting at Aspen)

Conducting Highlights

  • Conducting Fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (David Zinman and Murry Sidlin)
  • Participant at National Conducting Institute, 2007 (seminar conductor) and 2008 (debut conductor), working with the National Symphony Orchestra (Leonard Slatkin)
  • Assistant Conductor to Lorin Maazel for Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at Castleton, Virginia(2007)
  • Assistant Conductor Steven White for Bellini's La Sonnambula at Baltimore Opera (2005)   
  • Hong Kong premier of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen (2005)
  • Cover conductor to Gunther Herbig, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Nov 2007)

Education

  • DMA candidate (Orchestral Conducting), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University (present)
  • MM (Orchestral Conducting), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2007)
  • Qualified Solicitor, Hong Kong (1999)
  • Qualified Solicitor, England & Wales (1996)
  • MA (Economics), Cambridge University (1992)

Conducting Hong Kong Camerata with Ip Siu Hay and Kevin Jim as soloist. June 2007.