An active choral musician in Hong Kong and currently the Music Director of SingFest. Mr. Dominic Lam has led the group in performing a wide range of repertoire by Bach, Buxtehude, Pergolesi, Brahms and David Lang in choral theatre setting. Under his choral direction, SingFest has performed Bach’s Markus-Passion (BWV 247) and St. John Passion in the form of choral theatre under the baton of Matthew Halls and Wolfgang Katschner in Hong Kong and Germany respectively. Mr. Lam has led SingFest in performing excerpts of St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion and Handel’s Messiah in the form of online lecture-concert series.
Mr. Lam was a Part-time Lecturer of the Hong Kong Baptist University’s (HKBU) Music Department in 2017-2021, conducting the HKBU Choir. As a conductor-pianist of The Hong Kong Children’s Choir (HKCC) Senior Class, his notable projects with HKCC include leading contemporary opera Madame White Snake (2019) written by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, Les Chant des Enfants des Étoiles (2023) written by Unsuk Chin at Hong Kong Arts Festival; Aria (2020) at New Vision Arts Festival and appearing as guest singer in HKCC’s 50th anniversary original musical King of Singers (2021).
Mr. Lam has also been invited as guest instructor in local and international choral workshops and projects, including his collaboration with the Grammy award-winning tenor Paul Phoenix in leading the 1st and 2nd International Boswil Choral Summer Academy.
He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master of Music in Conducting from Westminster Choir College, USA.
