Born in Hong Kong, Chu Ying Lam is a local Guzheng artist and orchestral conductor, who is currently pursuing a Master in Orchestral Conducting at the Pennsylvania State University under Maestro Gerardo Edelstein. In 2020, she gained a Bachelor of Arts in Music (Honours) degree with First-class honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the tutelage of Miss Luo Jing, former Guzheng Principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

Chu was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme under the HKSAR to fully cover the tuition of her overseas study, with the honorable title as “Hong Kong Scholar”. Besides, during her undergraduate study, Chu was awarded numerous scholarships to acknowledge her outstanding achievements, namely the Talent Development Scholarship (2017,2018), Ng Tai Kong Memorial Scholarship (2020), and N.P. Lam Memorial Scholarship for Balanced Education (2020).

Chu began her music training in 2003 and obtained the Guzheng Diploma at the age of 12.  Chu later started her journey of conducting in 2013 and became the conductor of Belilios Public School Chinese Orchestra, leading the orchestra to obtain the Gold Award in 2019 Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows. She has been conducting various alumni orchestras and the Chinese Music Ensemble of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in recent years.

Being an active musician in Hong Kong, Chu has been achieving outstanding results in various regional and international competitions.  Chu was elected as one of the Young Music Makers by Radio Television Hong Kong in 2015 and recorded a series of radio and television reality program. She won the championship as well as the Gold prize in the Youth Professional Group at the Fifth International Zheng Contest in 2017. Among Chu’s countless performances as both a Guzheng player and conductor, her conducting of “The Garden After Rain” and solo performance in the Guzheng concerto “The Eternal Sorrow of Lin’An” with the Joint-Chinese Orchestra of TsingHua University and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Beijing in 2017 marked an important milestone and was greatly acclaimed by the audience.