Matthew Lam - Composer

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Matthew Lam is an active composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music and an enthusiast of contemporary music style. His music explores and experiments on a wide array of sounds and timbre with contemporary instrumental techniques and electronics, and integrates electroacoustic elements into acoustic music. His recent interests include saturation in music and ambisonics. 

Winning multiple awards, his works were featured in numerous festivals and events across 4 continents, including June in Buffalo (USA), American Composers Orchestra Earshot (USA), International Computer Music Conference (2025: Boston), International Rostrum of Composers (2023: Netherlands), International Review of Composers in Belgrade (Serbia), Paysages | Composés (France), Espacios Sonoros (Argentina), Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (USA), Ignite the Arts Festival (Canada), MUSLAB (Ecuador), Nanhua University International Symposium of Contemporary Music Research (Taiwan), soundSCAPE Festival (Italy), Connecticut Summerfest (USA), SCI National Conference (USA), and Hong Kong Contemporary Music Festival (HK), among others. 

Groups such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman Musica Nova, Mivos Quartet, Del Sol Quartet, [Switch~ Ensemble], Mise-en Ensemble, Du.0, Cong Quartet, NEXUS Ensemble, and Toolbox Percussion are among the many who have presented Lam’s music over the years. 

Lam earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music with highest honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and completed his master’s studies at Bowling Green State University, where he held a theory assistantship. He is currently pursuing is doctoral studies at Eastman School of Music, and serves as a teaching assistant at Electroacoustic Music Studios at Eastman (EMuSE), supported by the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Music Scholarship for Overseas Studies. His formative composition mentors include Mikel Kuehn, Evis Sammoutis, Elizabeth Ogonek, Christopher Dietz, Marilyn Shrude, Wendy Lee, and Kai-Young Chan.

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林俊熹是一位活躍的作曲家，他熱衷於現代古典音樂，且經常發掘及實驗新風格和技巧，尤其現代樂器技巧和現場電子音樂。

林氏贏得了不同獎項，而他的作品曾於多世界各地各個不同場合演出，其中包括June in Buffalo (美國)、International Rostrum of Composers (2023:荷蘭)、MUSLAB (厄瓜多爾)、南華大學當代音樂研討會與座談 (台灣)、Ignite the Arts Festival (加拿大)、soundSCAPE Festival (意大利)、Connecticut Summerfest (美國)、SCI National Conference (美國)、國際共襄創意學院 (香港)與香港當代音樂節 (香港) 等。

他的作品亦被香港管弦樂團、香港中樂團、Toledo Symphony、Mivos Quartet、Del Sol Quartet、[Switch~ Ensemble]、Mise-en Ensemble、Du.0、Cong Quartet、滙·亞洲室樂團和敲擊襄等不同團體演奏。

林氏於香港中文大學取得學士學位（甲等榮譽），師隨陳啟揚教授、盧厚敏博士和李允琪教授，並於鮑林格林州立大學修畢作曲碩士，師隨Mikel Kuehn、Marilyn Shrude和Christopher Dietz。他現於伊士曼音樂學院修讀作曲博士和擔任電子音樂課程的教學助理，並為香港作曲家及作詞家協會音樂獎學金得主。