Doming Lam
Doming Lam (Chinese林乐培/林乐培, * August 5, 1926 in Macau) is a Chinese composer, conductor and music producer. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong section of the Asian Composers League and is considered one of the pioneers of new music in Hong Kong.
Life
Lam sang in his childhood in the church choir and was a music teacher taught by Salesian missionaries. He studied from 1954 to 1958 Composition at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied film music and film production at Miklós Rózsa at the University of Southern California. In 1965 he graduated in Hong Kong. In addition, he attended the 1980 Darmstadt Summer Courses.
From 1965 to 1971 he worked as a television producer and television director for Rediffusion Television. He was co-founder of the Asian Composers League ( ACL). From 1973 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Hong Kong section of the ACL and was from 1980 to 1990 Secretary-General Lucrecia Kasilag. In 1983 he was entrusted with the establishment of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild, whose honorary president he became in 1983. He also founded the Composers and Authors 1977 Society of Hong Kong ( CASH) and worked until 1994 as its president. From 1979 to 1993 he was an advisor to the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Between 1981 and 1985 he produced for Radio Television Hong Kong. From 1983 to 1989 he was Music Director of the Cultural Institute of Macao. In 1988 he organized the World Music Days ISCM in Hong Kong. He stood before a jury of Tōru Takemitsu, Brian Ferneyhough and Chou Wen-chung.
From 1986 to 1994 he taught contemporary music and composition at the University of Hong Kong. In 1994 he moved to Toronto. 1995 his work Three Night Songs of LiPo in the Presidential Office Building was listed from Taipei. He was admitted to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001. In 2007 he was made an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music.