AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. Expected release in North America sometime mid to late June 2025.
*This album has topped the ARIA Classical Albums chart in Australia
Fresh from the hit Australian ABC TV series 'The Piano', which she featured in as a judge alongside Harry Connick Jr, internationally-acclaimed pianist Andrea Lam (daughter of our very own Dr Paul Lam) steps into the spotlight with her own album, Piano Diary. With this deeply personal selection of piano favourites, Andrea shares the music that means the most to her, from the sublime beauty of Bach and Chopin to the spectacular fireworks of contemporary composers and mellow Gershwin favourites.
The piano, says Andrea, has been her most constant companion, through life’s changes and adventures, its highs and lows. “Saying goodbye to my grandfather. Indescribable depths of love after having my child. Overwhelming feelings that come with moving to a new country. Isolation from a worldwide pandemic. Nostalgia for childhood. Times you just want to yell at the world or squeal with joy. These are some of the moments when I have turned to the piano; the moments I most needed art. This album is a diary of those moments, from childhood to adulthood, and the music that gave solace, hope, inspiration, challenged and transported me to a different place: my very own Piano Diary.”
Tracklist
1 EARL WILD - Etude No. 6 (based on George Gershwin’s ‘I Got Rhythm’)
2 ENRIQUE GRANADOS - The Girl and the Nightingale – Goyescas, No. 4
3 GEORGE GERSHWIN arr. Tom Poster - Someone to Watch Over Me
4 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
5 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN - Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.
6 JOHANNES BRAHMS - Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2
7 CLARA SCHUMANN - Romanze in A minor, WoO 28
8 ROBERT SCHUMANN - In der Nacht (In the Night) – Fantasiestücke, No. 5
9 FRANZ SCHUBERT - Impromptu in G-flat major, Op. 90 No. 3
10 MELODY EÖTVÖS - Bachram (World premiere recording)
11 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV988
12 AARON JAY KERNIS - Superstar Etude #2
13 BILL EVANS - Peace Piece
VIVIAN FUNG - Glimpses, for prepared piano
14 I. Kotekan
15 II. Snow
16 III. Chant
About Andrea Lam
Pronounced a ‘real talent’ by the Wall Street Journal, ARIA-nominated Australian pianist Andrea Lam performs with leading orchestras and conductors across Australasia and the USA, including the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and all the major Australian and New Zealand symphony orchestras. Recently returned to Australia after two decades in New York, Andrea has thrilled audiences from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, with works from Bach, Chopin, Mozart and Schumann to Aaron Jay Kernis, Liliya Ugay and
Nigel Westlake.
In 2025, Andrea headlines one of the ABC’s most anticipated television shows, The Piano, alongside multi-award-winning co-hosts Harry Connick Jr and Amanda Keller. Featuring everyday Australians and pianists in public spaces around the country, The Piano is a moving, heart-warming and inspiring new series celebrating the street piano and what music means to all of us. Andrea also returns as soloist with the Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, makes her soloist debut at the Grand Teton Music Festival (USA) and is Artistic Curator of the 2025 Kendal Series Concerts (Australia).
Andrea made her orchestral debut at age 13 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; since then she has performed with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Simone Young, Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Alan Gilbert, Michael Christie, and Wing-sie Yip. A regular guest of festivals, Andrea frequently collaborates with artists including cellist Matt Haimovitz, the Takács Quartet, clarinettist Anthony McGill and the Australian String Quartet.
Recent highlights include appearances at the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC) in a national tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia; recitals for the Utzon Music Series at the Sydney Opera House; concerts with the Australian String Quartet and the Australia Ensemble UNSW; and premieres at the Adelaide Festival, including the world premiere of Ngapa William Cooper, composed by Lou, Boni and Nigel Westlake, and at the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Winter
Festival. A keen chamber musician, Andrea was part of the New York City-based Claremont Trio, described by The Strad magazine as ‘one of America’s finest young chamber groups,’ from 2010 to 2020.
Andrea’s mesmerising 2024 CD release of Matthew Hindson’s Sad Piano pieces (ABC Classic/IDIOM) was Featured Album on both ABC Classic and 2MBS Fine Music Sydney. Other recordings include jazz-influenced tracks with cellist Matt Haimovitz (Pentatone’s Oxingale Series); multiple discs with the Claremont Trio (Bridge, AMR, Tria); and on the ABC Classic label, Mozart concertos with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, as well as the ARIA-nominated duo album Nocturnes with violinist Emily Sun.
A Lecturer in Piano at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (The University of Melbourne), Andrea was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Silver Medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, and winner of the ABC’s Young Performers Award (Keyboard division) and the Yale Woolsey Hall Competition. She holds degrees from both the Yale and the Manhattan Schools of Music.
