BIOGRAPHY
Lam Tsz Hin, Tyler, is a young pianist from Hong Kong and the founder of Sonus Music Education. He holds a Master of Arts in Music from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was awarded a UGC postgraduate fellowship. He previously earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Music with First Class Honours from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), majoring in piano performance under the mentorship of renowned pianist Ms. Nancy Loo. He was a visiting music student at the University of Leeds, studying piano with Mr. Jeremy Davis and organ with Mr. Darius Battiwalla. He also studied organ with Dr. So Ming Chuen. In addition to his private teaching, he currently teaches piano at the International Christian Quality Music Secondary and also serves as a piano class instructor at local schools.
Lam started learning piano at the age of six. As an active pianist, he has regularly participated in various performances and competitions. Lam has won numerous awards both internationally and locally, such as the first prize in Concorso International Di Esecuzione Musicale, Crescendo International Music Competition with a perfect score and the highest score in that year's competition, The 5th Macao –Asia Pacific Youth Piano Competition, The 11th Hong Kong International Youth Performance Art Festival (Young Artist Award), The 2nd Hong Kong Pacific Piano Open Competition, The 16th Hong Kong Asia Piano Open Competition. Second prize in Italy Recondite Armonie "Giovani Musicisti del Mondo" Competition, Bangkok International Piano Competition, International Music Moscow Competition, The 30th Young Musician International Competition "Citta di Barletta", Hong Kong Youth Piano Contest and Third prize in Munich Piano Competition, The 18th Osaka International Music Competition as well as Asian Youth Music Competition. In 2019, Lam got Yundi Li's The Future Pianist Award and was offered a golden opportunity to participate in his masterclass. He also received the HKBU Music's Honour Roll: Honour Students Recital Awards and was a Licentiate diploma holder of the London Trinity College in Piano with Distinction. He also participated in masterclasses by some famous pianists such as Elinor Freer, Jakob Fichert, Milan Franek and Wong Chi Yan.
Since the age of twelve, he has given many public performances in different places, such as the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, and Taiwan, receiving unanimous praise from the experts. He has also been interviewed and featured in several newspapers and music websites.
Lam also received several scholarships, such as the HKSAR Talent Development Scholarship for four consecutive years, the HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship, the Mr. & Mrs. Ho Ting Sik Scholarship, and the Padma & Hari Harilela Scholarship, among others, to recognise his music and academic achievements. He was also nominated as the Arts Ambassador-in-School, organised by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the CUHK Outstanding Students Awards. Furthermore, as the former Internal Vice President of the HKBU Music Society, he also helped promote and organise the university's music activities and was awarded the HKBU Outstanding Student Leaders Award. Lam has also invitied as an adjudicator for piano competitions, such as the GBA Young Artist Music Week Piano Competition and European Star International Music Festival Competition.
He is also enthusiastic about music research activities. In recent years, he has participated in various academic conferences and presented lecture recitals. His research papers have been frequently accepted and published in scholarly journals and presented at academic conferences, including Musical Offerings Journal, published by the Department of Music at Cedarville University in the U.S., as well as the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
Besides, he was the Music Secretary and Church organist at the Leeds Universities Catholic Chaplaincy and has been selected to participate in the organ training program from the Sacred Music Commission- Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and also served in the Masses with the choir in the Catholic Churches in Hong Kong regularly.