Pronounced a “real talent” by the Wall Street Journal, and finalist for Limelight’s 2024 and 2025 Artist of the Year, ARIA award-winning Australian pianist Andrea Lam performs with leading orchestras and conductors across Asia and the USA. Recently returned to Australia after two decades in New York, Andrea has played to 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.

Making her orchestral debut at age 13 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, since then Andrea has performed as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Hong Kong Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony, and San Francisco Ballet Orchestras, and all the major Australian symphony orchestras, with conductors including Simone Young, Jaime Martín, Sir Donald Runnicles, Alan Gilbert, Eivind Aadland, Michael Christie, and Wing-sie Yip. A regular guest of festivals she frequently collaborates with artists including cellist Matt Haimovitz, the Takacs Quartet, Ani Kavafian, and the Australian String Quartet.

Andrea featured in the Sydney Opera House’ International Piano Day 2020 and 2022 livestreams, New York City’s Chelsea Music Festival and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC). Recent seasons’ performance highlights include soloist engagements with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, a critically acclaimed national tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia, and recitals for Sydney Opera House’ Utzon Music Series, and the 2023 ABC Classic 100 concert broadcast on ABC iView.

In 2025, Andrea headlined the ABC’s new hit television series, The Piano, as classical expert alongside multi-Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, composer and actor, Harry Connick Jr, and doyenne of Australian media, Amanda Keller. In addition to soloist engagements with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, with renowned conductors including Simone Young and Jaime Martín, and Benjamin Northey, Andrea toured to the USA as concerto soloist in the Grand Teton Music Festival (USA), at the invitation of Sir Donald Runnicles. With her widespread appeal, Andrea performed in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Myer Music Bowl series before an audience of 8,000 and returned for the Classic100 concerts at Arts Centre Melbourne with the MSO. Other highlights included concerts with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, with Australia Ensemble at UNSW, with the Goldner Quartet, and regional festivals such as the Four Winds’ Easter Festival, where Andrea took on the dual role of Artistic Curator, and performer.

In 2026 Andrea features with the Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (NZ), in recital with Sir Bryn Terfel for the Sydney Symphony, with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, UKARIA Cultural Centre, Castlemaine State Festival, returns for Dunkeld Festival with the Australian String Quartet, and curates and performs in a long weekend of concerts for Four Winds (NSW).

Alongside the much-anticipated Season 2 of The Piano on ABC TV and iView in March 2026 – as classical expert along pop mentor Guy Sebastian - Andrea makes her radio debut with weekly show, ‘The Art of the Piano’, on Classic FM.

Winning the 2025 ARIA Award for ‘Best Classical Album’, Andrea’s solo recording, Piano Diary (ABC Classic) earned widespread acclaim, remaining for weeks at no.1 on the ARIA Classical and Classical/Crossover charts. Invited by renowned Australian composer Matthew Hindson AM to premiere and record his ‘Sad Piano’ pieces, Andrea’s recording of these works were released on ABC Classic for Australian Music Month 2024, and worldwide on Idiom Records (UK), reaching no.2 on the ARIA Classical Charts, and earning acclaim, including: “Lam’s mesmerising recording… listening is a must” (pianodao.com). Earlier recordings include as pianist on the 2022 ARIA-nominated album Nocturnes with Emily Sun (ABC Classics), described as “a winner on every count” (Sydney Morning Herald) and earning a rare 5-star review in The Australian; Mozart concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Milton); with cellist Matt Haimovitz for Pentatone Oxingale, and on New York City based Claremont Trio’s celebrated recordings. A keen chamber musician, Andrea was pianist of the New York City-based Claremont Trio from 2010 - 2020. Described by Strad Magazine as “one of America’s finest young chamber groups'“, their Beethoven disc for Bridge received universal critical acclaim.

Lecturer in Piano at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne), board director of the Australian National Academy of Music, and for Four Winds, Andrea Lam was a Semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Silver Medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, and winner of the ABC ‘Young Performer of the Year’ Award in the Keyboard section, and the Yale Woolsey Hall Competition. Andrea holds a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, and Artist Diploma and Master of Music from Yale University (USA).

A native of Sydney, Australia, Andrea has featured in several nationally televised programs, including Andrea’s Concerto, documenting her life as a young pianist and her performance of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, as guest on ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks, and A Bite to Eat with Alice, alongside her role as classical expert on The Piano.

Updated February 2026