Born in Macao, Lam received a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego in 1981. She has studied with Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros and Bernard Rands. Recently awarded a Rome Prize, Lam has also been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer. Among her commissioned works are Sudden Thunder for the American Composers Orchestra, Last Spring for Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, Impetus for Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Klang for Swiss Percussionist Fritz Hauser.
Paul Taub, alto flute; Bun-ching Lam, piano; Ella Marie Gray & John Weller, violin; Melissa Hamilton, viola; Matthew Kocmieroski, percussion; Paul Taub, piccolo; Thomas Eckert, piano; Walter Gray, cello;
For soprano, flute (alto flute, piccolo), cello and piano. Setting of early Dadaist Hugo Balls' sound poems; can be staged as a theatre piece. (10 minutes)
Limited edition, 45 rpm phono record, published by the Kaldewey Press as part of an Artist Book, with etchings by the composer. Performed by Thomasa Eckert, soprano, and musicians of the New Performance Group, Seattle.
For alto flute, cello and piano. (12 minutes)
Solo percussion. For a full gamut of percussion instruments ranging from wood and skin to metal. Hailed by the reknowned percussionist/teacher Raymond Des Roches as "...a piece that should be part of the contemporary percussion repertoire." (15 minutes)