Lam Bun-Ching
Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor. Early life and training Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, and Pauline Oliveros, earning a Ph.D. in 1981. Career In 1981, she was invited to join the music faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she taught until 1986. She has also served as the Jean MacDuff Vaux Composer-in-Residence at Mills College in Oakland, California, and in 1997 she served as a visiting professor of composition at Yale University and at Bennington College in Vermont. Her music has been recorded on the CRI, Tzadik, Nimbus, Koch International Classics, Sound Aspect, and Tellus labels. Lam divides her time between Paris and New York. Works Chamber opera Wenji: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute "文姬" 2002 to a libretto bu Xu Ying. References External links Bun-Ching Lam official site Women classical composers 1954 births Living people 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Hong Kong women classical composers Hong Kong classical composers