Andrea Lam performs in Mozart and Boléro.

Pronounced a "real talent" by the Wall Street Journal, Australian pianist Andrea Lam performs with leading orchestras and conductors across Asia, Australasia and the USA including the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the major Australian symphony orchestras. Recently returned after two decades in New York, Andrea has played New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House, with works from Bach, Mozart and Schumann to Aaron Jay Kernis, Liliya Ugay and Nigel Westlake.

Newly appointed Lecturer in Piano at the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music, in 2024 Andrea performs as soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with Sydney Symphony Orchestra in works by Lior and Nigel Westlake, and Orchestra Victoria. Chamber music engagements include a return to New York’s Chelsea Music Festival (USA) for its 15th edition, with the Australian String Quartet at UKARIA Cultural Centre (Adelaide), and the Australia Ensemble at UNSW (Sydney), and solo recitals for Musica Viva’s Morning Masterworks series. Andrea also performs celebrated Australian composer Matthew Hindson AM’s ‘Sad Piano’ pieces for Melbourne Recital Centre and regional venues, alongside the highly anticipated upcoming solo recording of these new piano works in late 2024.

Recent seasons’ highlights include soloist engagements with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with conductors Sir Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Johannes Fritzsch and Eivind Aadland, a national tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia, and recitals for Sydney Opera House’ Utzon Music Series, the 2023 ABC Classic 100 concert broadcast on ABC iView, and Adelaide Festival including the world premiere performances of Ngapa William Cooper.

Andrea Lam was a Semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Silver Medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, and winner of the ABC's ‘Young Performer of the Year’ Award in the Keyboard section, and the Yale Woolsey Hall Competition. She holds degrees from both the Yale, and the Manhattan Schools of Music. Recordings include Mozart with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; with cellist Matt Haimovitz, as pianist for New York’s acclaimed Claremont Trio, and as pianist on the 2022 ARIA-nominated album Nocturnes (ABC Classics).