Matthew Lam

Technical Director

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, where he had worked with Wendy Lee, Kai-Young Chan and Hau-Man Lo, and completed his master’s studies in composition with Mikel Kuehn, Marilyn Shrude, and Christopher Dietz at Bowling Green State University, where he held a theory assistantship. He is currently pursuing is doctoral studies at Eastman School of Music with Elizabeth Ogonek, Daniel Pesca, Evis Sammoutis, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Mikel Kuehn, 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.

Visit Matthew’s website to learn more: Matthew Lam Composer