Dr. Angel Lam is a GRAMMY-nominated composer who uses the beauty of sounds, songs, instrumentation, and written language to express detailed emotions and her passion for life. She tells intimate stories about life and death, growing up, inspirations and relationships. Her compositions are praised as “Timeless” (by Carnegie Hall), “Precious, soaring lyrical lines” (Metropolitan Opera, Opera News), and “both poignant and important.” (Yo-Yo Ma) Previously she was honored to receive three New York Carnegie Hall commissions before the age of 29, including a cello concerto dedicated to Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She also wrote a classical crossover piece for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, who toured the work for many years at prestigious venues worldwide. This year she will compose a new work for superstar pipa virtuoso Wu Man 吴蛮, to be premiered at Yale University Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and curate a concert program at Carnegie Hall supported by the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She is one of America’s foremost young female composers selected under the League of American Orchestras and Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. In the 2023-24 season, she is commissioned to write a new work for the Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern and performances with an additional four American orchestras. Currently, she is the composer-in-residence at the chamber music series “Concert on the Slope” at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Park Slope, NYC, and a recipient of Opera America’s Discovery Grant Award to write her new musical opera with developments and showcases in New York City. Between 2017-2021, her works have been performed and recorded in forty different cities worldwide by multiple ensembles and touring groups, including Music at Copland House Ensemble (U.S. tour), Guitar Foundation of America (worldwide recordings and performances), Hub New Music Ensemble (U.S. tour and recording), Asia America New Music Institute (Japan tour), Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival at the Konzertsaal des Rathauses, Bavaria, Germany, New Music for Strings Iceland Festival, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Radio Television Hong Kong (film recording), Music at Mānoa at Mae Zenke Orvis Auditorium, Hawaii, Little Universe Theatre in Shandong, China, and Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District Mixtape Volume 2 album recording. The Guitar Foundation of America recently commissioned her to write the solo guitar work, “Little snow.” It was published in GFA’s Spotlight Series Volume I. It was premiered by GFA international mentee Jitsupa Petchmark in Thailand and selected as an official repertoire piece for the Semifinals round of the prestigious International Concert Artists Competition. The competition took place in Brussels, Belgium, and Los Angeles. The first prize winner, Bokyung Byun, recorded “Little snow” with Naxos Records, the album to be released in 2022. The Aaron Copland Music at Copland House Ensemble toured her commissioned work in the U.S. east coast and west coast. It also received a featured performance at the Copland House Foundation's New York City Gala in 2019. In the summer of 2018, two of her compositions toured seven Japanese cities with Asia America New Music Institute (AANMI). Kyoto mayor Daisaku Kadokawa hosted our opening concert at Kyoto's Nijojo Castle. The final concert of the Japan tour was at Tokyo's prestigious Suntory Hall, sponsored by the United States Embassy. Previously, her work has been performed at prestigious venues such as Royal Albert Hall in London and the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. She was commissioned by Carnegie Hall's festival “Ancient Paths, Modern Voices” and another Carnegie Hall commission was released by Sony/BMG on Silk Road Ensemble’s CD “New Impossibilities” as an exclusive bonus and recorded again as one of four featured composers on the GRAMMY® -nominated album “Off the Map,” in the Classical Crossover Album category. She was voted “Artist of the Month” by Musical America, “Yalie of the Week” by Yale University Yale Alumni Magazine, and a featured artist on Best Buy Inc.'s "Creative Minds" with the Minnesota Orchestra performing her orchestral work “In Search of Seasons,” conducted by Osmo Vanska. As composer, librettist, and artistic director, she premiered her full-length musical “June Lovers,” commissioned by the international Hong Kong Arts Festival on their 40th-anniversary celebration. She is honored to receive the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Literary Award to develop and publish her literary works. Her previous works have been read in public readings and are in development with New York Off-Broadway theater Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Group, and Chelsea Repertory Theatre. She received six semi-staged performances at Theatre Row in Manhattan, and her theatre works were also performed at Museum of Chinese American (MOCA) New York, Here Arts Centre, The Tank, The China Institute of New York, National Sawdust Theater in Brooklyn, and Flushing Town Hall in Queens. She was the composer for the Off-Broadway production of “A Dream of Red Pavilions,” which received 40 performances at Theatre Row in NYC. Her theatre and writing mentors include Martha Clarke, playwrights Jeremy Karekan (Broadway “Lifespan of a Fact”), Arlene Hutton (Barrow Group), Richard Caliban (Gotham Writers), and director/actor Ernest Abuba (Obie Award winner.) She was commissioned to write several works for dance and film, including a piece for the centennial celebration of Peabody Dance Institute and another for the 30th-anniversary of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in collaboration with the School of Chinese Dance and Contemporary Dance. The Interlochen Center for the Arts has commissioned her to create a short film with her own story and music, “Color of the Mind,” directed by award-winning director Mida Chu (Interlochen alumni) and performed by the Interlochen Center for the Arts Symphonic Band. It was an official selection at the Monarch International Film Festival, Monterey Bay, California. Her music are also performed by Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, New York Greenwich Village Orchestra, New York University Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Northwest Symphony, Oak Park and River Forest Symphony Orchestra, and more.