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Jianghai Ho

GEORGE TSZ-KWAN LAM (b. 1981) works and lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he is currently pursuing graduate studies in music composition at Duke University. Current projects and collaborations include works written for American Opera Projects, the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Voices, Volti and the Boston University Concert Band.  In addition, George has collaborated with flutist Brook Ferguson, baritone Robert Maril, violinist Lydia Miller, and writers Lap Lam, Benjamin Rogers, John Clum and Martin Zimmerman.

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.


George holds a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University. George has studied with composers Anthony Kelley, Scott Lindroth, Stephen Jaffe, Christopher Theofanidis, Nicholas Maw, Charles Fussell and Martin Amlin. In addition, George has also worked with composers John Duffy, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Sydney Hodkinson, Miguel Mera, Peter Wiegold and Martin Butler.