Bun-Ching Lam

70th Anniversary Celebrations

2025

March 7-8 World premiere Part I & Part II of “Orchestra Suite: Joy” commissioned and performed by the Macao Orchestra,
Lio Kuokman, conductor.

March 14-15 Premiere of Part III & Part IV of the orchestral suite. Macao Orchestra conducted by Christian Arming.

2024

July 27 World premiere Part I of “Orchestra Suite: Joy” commissioned and performed by the Macao Orchestra,
Lio Kuokman, conductor.

September 30 World premiere of “Drift” at the Embarque Festival, Soisy-sur-Seine, France.

October 22 World premiere of “Two Pieces for Sheng and Violin”, at the Hong Kong University Museum.

November 12-14 To celebrate the acquisition of my archive by the CATS Library of Heidelberg University,
a retrospective program including an exhibition, a vernissage and concert will be presented on November 12th,
workshops and interview on the 13th and 14th.

Poster of Be.longing.home exhibition at the CATS Library
(Event Page)

2023

Broadcasts of Comme le Vent performed by Tana Quartet in five episodes at Creation Mondiale

Featured composer of “Creation Mondiale” (Global Creation) and “carrefour de Creation” (Crossroad of Creation)
from January 16th to 22nd on French Radio.

2022

Appointed Guest professor at the School of Music, South China Normal University in Canton, China.

2021 November Performances
November 5
"Jeder Tag Ein Maya Tag"
Performed by Cellist Fang Yijia at the 10th China-ASEAN Contemporary Music Festival. Guangxi Arts University, China.

November 28
"Another Spring"
Performance by Chamber Music Players of Lincoln Center featuring flutist Tara O’Conner
at the China Inspiration Concert. Lincoln Center, New York.

2019 December 15:
World premiere of “Sails Returning to the Mirror Sea” & “Fountain of Lilau”,
commissioned by the Macao Youth Orchestra, presented in a special concert conducted by Lio Kwokman
at the MGM Theater, Macao, commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Macao’s return to China.

2019 Summer Events:
New Production of “Wenji - 18 Songs of the Nomad Flute” in Germany
Celebrating the opening of CATS - Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies in University of Heidelberg, Germany
“Wenji - 18 Songs of the Nomad Flute” will be performed in Ludwigsburg & Heidelberg in July 2019.
(Concert Flyer)

Invited to give lectures and performances by the Academia de Musica S. Pio X of Macao
in events celebrating the academy’s 55th Anniversary.
(Concert Flyer)

Performances of "Fountain of Lilau" by the Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra,
as the featured composer of their French tour.

Appointed one of the twelve members of the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Alumni Advisory Board
of Chinese University of Hong Kong. (GAAB) [環球校友諮詢委員會].
(Press Release)

Featured composer at the 13th Thailand International Composition Festival, August 7- 13 in Bangkok.
Performance of "Last Love Song " and "Five Songs from Cold Mountain" by baritone Thomas Bruckner,
and "Five Scenes of Macao" by the Thailand Philharmonic

First Performance of "…Like Rain" (Part I ) by Ensemble Dialog,
featuring Pipa virtuoso Yu Lingling and string quartet,
at Festival Puplinge Classic, in Geneva, Switzerland on August 17, 2017
(puplinge-classique.ch/)

First Performance of "…Like Rain" (Part II ) by Ensemble Dialog
at the 4th edition of the EurAsia festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on October 7, 2017
(Festival Page / Performance Page)

Book Launching Events:
Creating Across Cultures: Women in the Arts from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
Edited by Michelle Vosper
with an article by Ralph Samuelson entitled
"Eight Views of a Renaissance Women" on Bun-Ching Lam

June 21, Asian Cultural Council, New York City
March 8, Asia Society, Hong Kong
(Order from Amazon or directly from Columbia University Press [30% Discount Code: CUP30])
(www.CreatingAcrossCultures.com)

European Concerts: "Musique et Poésie" - Recents works by Bun-Ching Lam
November 6, 2016 @ Cité des Arts, Paris, France.
November 8, 2016 @ Galerie Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium.
Program include world premiere of "Conversation with my Soul" on text by Etel Adnan,
for baritone & String Quartet, performed by Thomas Buckner and the Tana Quartet.
(Cité des Arts Announcement / Concert Announcement)

Featured composer at the BANG ON A CAN Summer Music Festival
Concert of music on July 27, 2016 @ Mass MoCa
(Bang on a Can: Website / Facebook / Twitter)

"In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores"
on Deutsche Grammophon
won a Grammy Award at the February 2015
Ceremony in Los Angeles for "Best Chamber Music Performance",
featuring violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Cory Smythe.
This collection of all contemporary music commissioned for the project include
"Solitude d'Automne" by Bun-Ching Lam.
(Amazon Order)

CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE: A CREATIVE COUPLE.
Books of Gunnar A. Kaldewey and Music of Bun-Ching Lam.
Presented by Heidelberg University, Germany
October 26 to November 15, 2009
Exhibition information

Appointed Composer-in-Residence by the Macao Orchestra.