Organ Recital By Anne Lam
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Now a much sought after concert organist, church musician and collaborative artist, Anne Lam currently serves as the Director of Music and Principal Organist at Chung Chi Chapel of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she also teaches organ performance in Music Department and graduate church music courses in Divinity School. Her solo performances have been broadcast on the Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 4, Metro Radio Hong Kong and American Public Radio’s programme Pipedreams. In 2012, Lam won Second Prize in the 6th Miami International Organ Competition and was named semi-finalist of the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.
Since 2014, Lam has been course instructor of the ‘King of the Instruments’ Pipe Organ Education Series organized by the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the founding dean of Hong Kong Chapter, The American Guild of Organists. Her engagements in 2015 included solo performances in Hong Kong and Macau, performances with the Singfest Choral Academy, Hong Kong Young People’s Chorus, the Christian Choir of the Hong Kong University Students’ Union and two commercial recordings in collaboration with three girls’ choirs under the baton of Italian Maestro Aurelio Porfiri.
After completing her bachelor’s degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lam was awarded a prestigious full-tuition scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund for her graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music, New York where she gained a Sacred Music Diploma, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Organ Performance and Literature. She is recipient of numerous scholarships, including the Parsons Music Scholarship, Mount Royal Conservatory Scholarship, C.F. Hu Postgraduate Memorial Scholarship, Ann Anway Scholarship, Betty Bauer Organ Memorial Scholarship and Evelyn A. Fraser Scholarship. Alongside her major organ teachers including Ms. Wong Kin-yu, Dr. Chiu Siu-ling and Professor David Higgs, she studied continuo playing, organ improvisation and harpsichord performance with Professor William Porter at the Eastman. Her organ improvisation was published in the Eastman Organ Book (2011) and she served as an organ teaching assistant for the Organ and Historical Keyboards Department at the Eastman. During 2007-2013, she served as Director of Music and Organist for several Episcopal churches in upstate New York.
Lam’s research interests include early Christian music and liturgy in the ancient synagogue, hymnody in the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican II, psalmody and organ works of Johann Gottfried Müthel, the last pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Repertoire：Fantasy in G minor
Composer：J. S. Bach
Repertoire：Pièce d’Orgue, BWV 572
Composer：J. Jongen
Repertoire：Prayer (from Four Pieces for Organ, Op. 37)
Composer：Calvin Hampton
Repertoire：Five Dances for Organ (III. Those Americans, V. Everyone Dance)
Composer：M. Duruflé
Repertoire：Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op.7
Organ：Anne Lam
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2015" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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