Ken Lam - Short Resume

Current Positions

• Assistant Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra
  
• Artistic Director, Hong Kong Voices
• Resident Conductor, Brevard Music Center
  

Principal Teachers

• Gustav Meier, Markand Thakar, Edward Polochick (Peabody Institute)
• David Zinman and Murry Sidlin (American Academy of Conducting at Aspen)
• Leonard Slatkin (National Conducting Institute)
  

Conducting Highlights

• Featured conductor in 2009 Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview
• Conducting Fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (David Zinman and Murry Sidlin)
• Participant at National Conducting Institute, 2007 (seminar conductor) and 2008 (debut conductor), working with the National Symphony Orchestra (Leonard Slatkin)
• Assistant Conductor to Lorin Maazel for Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at Castleton, Virginia(2007)
• Assistant Conductor Steven White for Bellini's La Sonnambula at Baltimore Opera (2005)   
• Hong Kong premier of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen (2005)
• Cover conductor for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  
• Principal Conductor, Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra (2001-2008)
• Director, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Choral Society (2006-2008)
• Made numerous recordings with Peabody Singers (2007-2008)
• Conducting a performance of Bach's St John Passion with the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble and Baltimore Baroque Band (February 2008)
  

Education

• GPD (Orchestral Conducting), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2008)
  
• MM (Orchestral Conducting), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2007)
• Qualified Solicitor, Hong Kong (1999)
• Qualified Solicitor, England & Wales (1996)
• MA (Economics), Cambridge University (1992)

Conducting Hong Kong Camerata with Ip Siu Hay and Kevin Jim as soloist. June 2007.