Lam Manyee () is a Chinese composer and music producer from Hong Kong.
Early life
On 10 September 1950, Lam was born in Hong Kong.
Education
Lam graduated from the
University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...
in psychology and sociology. Later she studied piano at the
Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome from 1973 until 1976 with
Franco Evangelisti and composition at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ("University of Music Freiburg or Freiburg Conservatory of Music") is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music.
...
with
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
. In 2009, she also gained qualification as a naturopathic practitioner.
Career
Lam is a composer in Hong Kong and the United States. Lam has composed for orchestra, ballet and solo instrument. Lam has also composed over 50 film scores, music for TV and over 150 pop songs.
Works
This is a partial list of Lam's works.
*''Interludes'' for
prepared piano
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage's dance music for ''Works for pr ...
, 1977
*''Journey'' for
chamber ensemble
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
, 1977–78
*''Monologo II'' for
cello
The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...
,
piano
A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
and
tapes, 1980
*''Die Meng'' (Butterfly Dream),
Chinese orchestra
The term Chinese orchestra is most commonly used to refer to the modern Chinese orchestra that is found in China and various overseas Chinese communities. This modern Chinese orchestra first developed out of Jiangnan sizhu ensemble in the 1920s ...
, 1978
*''Ceng Die'', 1981
*''Double Triangle'', ballet, 1976
*''Bamboo Suite'', ballet, 1983
*''Mixed Visions'', ballet, 1983
*''Chinese Historical Myths'', ballet, 1985
*''ID Shuffle'', ballet, 1985
*''Kwaidan/Emaki'', ballet, 1986
*''Diary'', ballet, 1988
*''Hell Screen'', ballet, 1990
*''Stories of Aung San Suu Kyi'', ballet, 1992
*''Open Party'', ballet, 1994
*''Is there Life on Mars?'', ballet, 1997
*''Dream City'', ballet, 1998
*''Beauty and the Beast'', ballet, 1999
Filmography
*
Once a Thief - Music.
References
External links
* (in English)
*
Violet Lam at allmovie.com*
*
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1950 births
Living people
20th-century Chinese classical composers
Hong Kong classical composers
Hong Kong women classical composers
Hong Kong film score composers
Women film score composers
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg alumni
20th-century women composers