Song-Lam Yiu - Professor of Oboe and Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Hong Kong-born Yiu Song-Lam is a distinguished oboist who has worked in the music industry as performer, educator and entrepreneur. He has been a faculty member at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts since 1996 and was appointed as Head of Winds, Brass and Percussion in 2015. Yiu 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 of 1989, 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 in 1994. Yiu has worked extensively as soloist with renowned orchestras worldwide, and has been invited to perform with the Academy of St.