Thu, Feb 26 · 7:00 PM NZDT
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Maria Grenfell Hinemoa
The scintillating pianist Andrea Lam is at her best in Mendelssohn’s bright, bubbly concerto. Brightness and contentment too in Dvořák’s most bucolic symphony – few pieces are so uncomplicatedly happy. It’s out-of-doors music by a humble man with simple tastes.
Closer to home, the Māori legend tells of the beautiful maiden Hinemoa who swam across Lake Rotorua to her lover, the warrior Tūtānekai. What inspired Maria Grenfell, though, was that Hinemoa was guided by music – the sound of Tūtānekai’s flute.
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Pronounced a "real talent" by the Wall Street Journal, and 2024 Limelight Artist of the Year finalist, ARIA-nominated Australian pianist Andrea Lam performs with leading orchestras and conductors across Asia, Australasia and the USA including the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and all major Australian symphony orchestras with conductors such as Simone Young, Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Alan Gilbert, Michael Christie, and Wing-sie Yip. Returning to Australia after two decades in New York, Andrea has played thrilled audiences from New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House, with works from Bach, Mozart and Schumann to Aaron Jay Kernis, Liliya Ugay and Nigel Westlake.
In 2025, Andrea shines as classical expert and mentor in the ABC’s hit television series, The Piano, watched by over one million viewers each week, and features in the Classic100 in Concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey, also broadcast on ABC iView. She performs as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestras conducted by Simone Young, at the Myer Music Bowl with Jaime Martín and the MSO to an audience of 8,000, and tours to the USA as piano soloist performing Mozart and Brahms in the Grand Teton Music Festival, conducted by Donald Runnicles. Andrea also features as both Artistic Curator and performer in Four Winds’ Easter Concerts (Australia), alongside regional festival appearances including Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s Daylesford Festival and at UKARIA Cultural Centre (Adelaide). Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed national tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia, Sydney Opera House’ Utzon Music Series, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Winter Festival with conductor André de Ridder, and performing the music of Lior and Nigel Westlake at Adelaide Festival, on tour with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and more.
