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Angel On-Ki LAM
  Born in Hong Kong
2001 B. Mus. (Honors) in Composition, HKAPA
2003 M. Mus. In composition, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, USA
2005 M. Mus. In music theory, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, USA
2006 Doctoral candidate, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, USA
 
Awards
1992 Reflections Program Music Composition Contest School District Award
1999 HKAPA scholarship to attend "Music 99" festival (USA)
1999 Attends Universitat Mozarteum Sommerakademie (Austria) with scholarship
2000 First Prize, Millennium Music Competition for Woodwind Quintet Composition (Hong Kong)
2000 CASH Composition Scholarship Award
2001 Attends Academie d' Ete at IRCAM (France) with scholarship
2001-2003 Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship
2002 Aspen Music Festival Scholarship Award
2003-2004 CASH Composition Scholarship for Overseas Studies
2003 First Prize, Prix d’ Ete VIII , Peabody Conservatory of Music
2003 Aspen Music Festival Fellowship Award
2003, 2004, 2005 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Honorable Mention
2003 Randolph S. Rothschild Composition Award, Peabody Conservatory of Music
2004-2006 Peabody Institute Composition Graduate Assistantship Award
2004, 2005 Second Prize, NACUSA (National Association of Composers U.S.A.) Young Composer Competition
2004, 2005 ASCAP/SCI Young Composer Commissioning Award, National finalist
2005 Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation Grants
  - Merle Montgomery Doctoral Grant
- Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter Grant for Graduate Work in Composition
- Lillian Harlan Ramage Grant for Graduate Study in Composition
2005 American Music Center CAP Grant
2005 Second Prize, Southeastern Composer's League, Philip Slates Memorial Composition Contest (USA)
2005 Audience Prize for best composition (young composer category), Third Seoul International Competition for Composers (Seoul, Korea)
2005 Pacific Music Festival Composition Fellowship Award, Japan
2006 Carnegie Hall / Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble Professional Training Workshop Composition Commission
2006 Carnegie Hall debut and premiere of Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain
2006 2nd Carnegie Hall commission for young emerging composer, to work with acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov and soprano Dawn Upshaw. Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall premiere April 2007
2006 World-renowned Silk Road Ensemble performs Angel's new work in a concert part of the yearlong, citywide celebration of Silk Road Chicago at University of Chicago's Mandel Hall
2007 Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tour with Angel's work (a Carnegie Hall and Silk Road Project commission) in the 2007 United States spring tour

Major Compositions
Orchestral (Western)
Memories from My Previous Lives (2005) 10'
     for orchestra
Softly I Speak to You of Orchids and a Dream (2005) 10'
     for soprano, harp, piano and string orchestra
Symphonic Journal: Ambush from Ten Directions (2002-2003) 11'
     for orchestra with narration
The Suite for Orchestra (1999) 8'30"
     for orchestra

Chamber (Western)
Silk Road, Silk Road (2006) 8'30"
     for harmonica quintet  
Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain II (2006) 13'30"
     for guitar and percussion duo  
Secrets and Ice Garden (2005) 8'
     for string quintet
Red Peony Sky in Mid-June, I. Sunset, II. Nightfall (2003 (I.) 2005 (II.)) 10'
     for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone, marimba, and percussion
Through the Interwoven Growth (2003) 12'
     for woodwind quintet
Imagery of Water (2002-2003)12'
     for guitar, harp, vibraphone, crotales and double bass
Dream Sketches (2001) 11'
     for string quartet
For A New Millennium (2000) 7'
     for woodwind quintet
Love in Cynical City (1998) 4'
     for duet for clarinet and piano
Love Memo (1997) 5'30”
     for duet for flute and piano
Mid-Summer Harbour Dance (1994) 6'
     for piano duo

Chamber (Chinese)
Dreams of them enter, like men alive, into the maiden room of their lovers…(2000) 5'30
     for gu zheung and effect processors      

Chamber (Mixed)
Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain (2006) 15'
    for shakuhachi, violin, cello, double bass, marimba, dumbek and crotales        

Vocal /Choral
Therefore We do not Lose Heart (2004-2005) 4'
     for women's choir a capella
Carry Me Over the Rainbow (2000) 8'
     for soprano, tenor, flute, clarinet, violin and organ

Electro-Acoustic Music / Computer Music
Dreams of them enter, like men alive, into the maiden room of their lovers…(2000) 5'30
     for gu zheung and effect processors     
A Photo of Mercury Gliding Across the Sun (2000) 5'30
     for piano and electronic sound
Echoes of the Heart (1999) 4'
     for harp and effect processor

Music for Ballet/Dance
Midnight Run (2007) 25'
     for dance, video projections and piano quintet
Red Peony Sky (2004) 6'30”
     for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone, marimba, and percussion
Love in Cynical City (1998) 4'
     for duet for clarinet and piano
Love Memo (1997) 5'30”
     for duet for flute and piano

Music for Theatre / Drama
Beyond the Rainbow (2003) 20'
     for chamber opera

Multimedia / Installation
Envitroment (2002)
     for Installation project (Max/MSP): users conduct a changing visual and audio environment

Publications/ Paper Presentations
"Comparative Analysis of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King." M.Mus Portfolio, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
"Interpretation of George Crumb's Music from a Chinese Aesthetic Perspective." B. Mus. Research Paper, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 2001

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