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GEORGE TSZ-KWAN LAM (b. 1981) lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he is pursuing graduate studies in music composition at Duke University. George has written works for Volti (San Francisco, CA), American Opera Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Red Clay Saxophone Quartet (Greensboro, NC), Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Voices, Boston University Concert Band, Charles River Wind Ensemble (Boston, MA), and Alarm Will Sound. In addition, George has collaborated with composer Ruby Fulton, flutist Brook Ferguson, baritone Robert Maril, violinist Lydia Miller, and writers Lap Lam, Benjamin Rogers, John Clum and Martin Zimmerman. George is currently working on a new documentary opera that looks at the changing face of Durham's downtown, created with playwright Neal Bell.

George Lam was a Schumann Fellow at the 2006 Aspen Music Festival and School's composition master class, as well as an Angus Allnatt Foundation Fellow at the 2004 Dartington International Summer School. Other recent fellowships and residencies include American Opera Projects' Composers & The Voice workshop series, the Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Composers Institute, and the 2007-08 Volti Choral Arts Laboratory commissioning and residency program.

George is the director of the Duke New Music Ensemble, and is a founding co-artistic director of Rhymes With Opera, a new opera company dedicated to bringing new works of music-theater into unconventional spaces.