Prof. YIU Song-lam
Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Awardee of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship Scheme 1989-90, 1990-91

Hong Kong-born Yiu Song-lam is a distinguished oboist who has worked in the music industry as performer, educator and entrepreneur. He is the Head of Winds, Brass and Percussion of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He has been Visiting Professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music since 2016 and was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) by the Royal Academy of Music for his significant contributions to the music profession.

A graduate of the HKAPA, Yiu was awarded the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship to study at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Rotterdam Conservatorium in Holland and at the Köln Musikhochschule in Germany, where he received the Diplom der Künstlerischen Abschlußprüfung with distinction.

Yiu is the founding Artistic Director of Hong Kong Wind Kamerata and the Vice-president of the Asian Double Reed Association. In addition, Yiu has been the Honorary Artist-in-Residence of the Education University of Hong Kong. He is highly regarded for his contributions in developing the double reed network regionally and internationally. In 2022, he was appointed as the At-large Director (Orchestra/Chamber – Oboe) of the Board of Directors of the International Double Reed Society (IDRS). He has worked extensively as soloist with renowned orchestras worldwide and has been invited to perform with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner and with the London Virtuosi on their Spain tour. He is frequently invited to perform at prestigious music festivals around the world.

His students have won major prizes in many international competitions and have been appointed major positions at renowned orchestras across Europe and Asia.

Yiu has given masterclasses regularly in Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Beijing Central Conservatory of Music , École Normale de Musique de Paris, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon in France, Leipzig and Stuttgart Musikhochschule in Germany. He has also served as an adjudicator for the Muri International Oboe Competition in Switzerland, the IDRS Fernard Gillet-Hugo Fox International Oboe Competition, IDRS International Young Artist Oboe Competition, the Concours International Musique de Chambre in Lyon, France, and the prestigious Geneva Competition 2021.