Andrea Lam.
Sunday, June 28th, 2.30pm.
Star of the ABC’s The Piano and winner of the 2025 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album, pianist Andrea Lam interpretative depth and virtuosic prowess is unleashed in this diverse program spanning over two centuries.
To play the music of Schubert is to lay bare one’s soul. Rarely does a composer express such duality, creating music of sublime exultation and haunting desolation. Schubert’s A Major Piano Sonata sits at the heart of this program and is a formidable example of this duality. Imbued with intense lyricism, harmonic sophistication and thematic inventiveness, the sonata is beloved for its achingly beautiful second movement and bucolic outer movements.
The Schubert is paired with works by siblings and spouses of the Classical-Romantic era, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and Clara and Robert Schumann. Two dazzling Spanish works, an Aria from J.S.Bach’s Goldberg Variations and 'Bachram', a work written specifically for Andrea by Australian composer, Melody Eötvös completes the program.
Program
SCHUBERT Sonata in A major, D. 959
J.S. BACH Aria from Goldberg Variations
MELODY EÖTVÖS Bachram
CLARA SCHUMANN Romanze
ROBERT SCHUMANN (arr. Liszt) Widmung
FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL Song without Words
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Song without Words
GRANADOS Maiden and the Nightingale
GINASTERA Suite de danzas Criollas
Tickets
Adult $50 Students $15
Purchase as part of a 2026 Full Season Subscription Package or the Sunday Afternoon Subscription Package.
Following the performance, join fellow audience members and the artist for a complimentary glass of wine courtesy of Savannah Estate.
Concert Duration
90 minutes with interval
The Artist
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Pronounced a "real talent" by the Wall Street Journal, ARIA award-winning pianist Andrea Lam performs with
leading orchestras and conductors across Asia, Australasia and the USA, with conductors such as Simone Young,
Sir Donald Runnicles, Jaime Martín, Alan Gilbert, Michael Christie, and Wing-sie Yip. Recently returned after two
decades based 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.
Widely recognised for her star role as classical expert in the ABC’s hit television series, The Piano – watched by
over a million viewers each week - Andrea’s solo album ‘Piano Diary’ (ABC Classics) won the 2025 ARIA Fine Arts
Award for ‘Best Classical Album’, topping the classical charts for weeks. Voted finalist for 2025 Limelight Artist
of the Year for the second year running, with soloist performances with almost all the major Australian
orchestras and at Sir Donald Runnicles’ Grand Teton Music Festival, in 2026 Andrea performs with the
Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, in recital with Sir Bryn Terfel for the Sydney
Symphony, with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, and more. Winner of multiple
international prizes, Andrea holds a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, and Artist Diploma
and Master of Music from Yale University (USA). Andrea is a board member for the Australian National Academy
of Music, and Four Winds, and is Lecturer in Piano at the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music.
