Andrea Lam
Piano
Pronounced a "real talent" by the Wall Street Journal, and 2024 Limelight Artist of the Year finalist, ARIA-nominated 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 all major Australian symphony orchestras with conductors such as Simone Young, Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Alan Gilbert, Michael Christie, and Wing-sie Yip. Returning to Australia after two decades in New York, Andrea has played thrilled audiences from 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.
In 2025, Andrea shines as classical expert and mentor in the ABC’s hit television series, The Piano, watched by over one million viewers each week, and features in the Classic100 in Concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey, also broadcast on ABC iView. She performs as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestras conducted by Simone Young, at the Myer Music Bowl with Jaime Martín and the MSO to an audience of 8,000, and tours to the USA as piano soloist performing Mozart and Brahms in the Grand Teton Music Festival, conducted by Donald Runnicles. Andrea also features as both Artistic Curator and performer in Four Winds’ Easter Concerts (Australia), alongside regional festival appearances including Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s Daylesford Festival and at UKARIA Cultural Centre (Adelaide). Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed national tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia, Sydney Opera House’ Utzon Music Series, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Winter Festival with conductor André de Ridder, and performing the music of Lior and Nigel Westlake at Adelaide Festival, on tour with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and more.
Following on from her ARIA-nominated album Nocturnes, and acclaimed recording of Matthew Hindson’s Sad Piano pieces, released by ABC Classic and Idiom (UK) in 2024, Andrea’s 2025 solo album, Piano Diary, for ABC Classic has topped the charts for consecutive weeks since its May 2025 release. A Semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Silver Medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, Andrea is a winner of the ABC's ‘Young Performer of the Year’ Award, and the Yale Woolsey Hall Competition. Andrea holds a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and Artist Diploma and Master of Music from Yale University and is Lecturer in Piano at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music since 2024, and board member for the Australian National Academy of Music.
You can see Andrea Lam live with the Auckland Philharmonia on Thursday 26 February at Mendelssohn & Dvořák.