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Doming LAM (Hong Kong) - Biographical Summary
Doming Lam, composer, teacher and contemporary music promoter has made many significant contributions to the development of contemporary in Hong Kong, China and many parts of Asia through years of hard work and dedication. Born in Macau in 1926, he has studied music at the University of Toronto, and later under Mikros Rozsa at the University of Southern California where he and his student team obtained many awards in film music composition under the Maestro's guidance.
Upon returning to Hong Kong in the 1960s, he actively took part in the subsequent establishment of a composers' union (Hong Kong ACL Branch in 1971 becoming the Hong Kong Composers' Guild in 1983) and a performing rights society (CASH in 1977) both of which later became the driving forces in the promotion of contemporary music in Hong Kong and the region. Through his dedication, he managed to help found the Asian Composers' League in the early 1970s, drawing together composer organizations from more than 10 countries in Asia-Pacific regions in annual festivals and conferences, which called for active protection of composers' rights and for greater emphasis of Asian cultural roots in contemporary music of the region. He served for many years the Founding Director of CASH and as Secretary General of the ACL.
His drive for international exchange and understanding has been exemplary and has helped put Hong Kong on the map of the international contemporary music scene through participation in many important events and organizations such as the ISCM, ACL, UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, Gaudeamus, Darmstadt, etc. Doming initiated contacts with the ISCM in the 1980s and successfully organized the first ISCM World Music Days Festival in Asia in 1988 in Hong Kong. He served as Artistic Director of the Festival during which composers from mainland China were put in active contact with the rest of the world for the first time.
As a composer, Doming has also made important breakthroughs. From the 1960s onwards, his artistic objective has been to create a kind of new Chinese music by applying contemporary techniques to traditional roots. He pioneered in establishing a new genre of contemporary orchestral music for Chinese Orchestra with his works Insect World and Autumn Execution which has provided much valuable inspiration to whole generations of younger composers and musicians. He has received numerous commissions and his music has been performed over 50 cities in the world.
Doming Lam is also a broadcaster and television producer, producing many award-winning programmes on music and the arts; an academic, having served as Composer-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong; a conductor, being the Founding Music Director of the Cultural Institute of Macau Sinfonietta and Music Director of the Hong Kong Children's Choir for many years. An all-rounder and a dedicated musician, his life-long work has been catalogued in the 2001 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Doming LAM - List of Important Biographical Events