Ken Lam - Short Resume

Current Positions

  • Orchestra Director, Montclair State University
  • Artistic Director, Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestras
  • Artistic Director, Hong Kong Voices
  • Resident Conductor, Brevard Music Center
  • Education Artistic Director, World Piano Competition
Past Positions
  • Assistant Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra

Principal Teachers

  • Gustav Meier, Markand Thakar, Edward Polochick, Marin Alsop (Peabody Institute)
  • David Zinman and Murry Sidlin (American Academy of Conducting at Aspen)
  • Leonard Slatkin (National Conducting Institute)

Conducting Highlights

  • 1st prize winner, Memphis Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Competition
  • Featured conductor in 2009 Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview
  • 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)
  • Principal Conductor, Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra (2001-2008)
  • Director, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Choral Society (2006-2008)

Education

  • GPD (Orchestral Conducting), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2008)
  • 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.