Lecturer
Cameron Lam (he/they) is Melbourne-based composer, obsessive dabbler, excitable research nerd, and joyful collaborator.
Named in 2020 as one of The Music Network’s 30 under 30 future leaders of the music industry, Cameron’s career has focused on collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and entrepreneurship. He creates music-based works that connect multiple artforms (and hopefully multiple humans) with his production company/record label Kammerklang and on other freelance projects. They are also a passionate curator and champion of the Australian art music community, running the Australian Art Music playlist on Spotify & Bandcamp and in their previous roles as Art Music Lead at the APRA AMCOS and curator of High Score: Composition and Sound Art for Games.
His music has been described by Limelight Magazine as “a fantastical world in which mythological stories come to life” and “infused with a Northern European sensibility – dark, emotional, restrained”. Cameron has also been shortlisted for Australia’s prestigious Paul Lowin Prize for their spectral a cappella song cycle about getting naked and loving your queer self, The Splendour of Lying Naked in the Sun.
In 2009 he founded Kammerklang, a production company focused on cross-artform collaboration and creating comfortable context for audiences to be curious in.
In the 15 years since, it has functioned as a new music ensemble, print music publisher, record label and event producer before resolving into the multi-purpose production house it is today. The organisation has been responsible for commissioning, premiering or recording over 150 new works by Australian composers, getting them into the ears of new audiences.
Cameron continues to innovate and connect within the art music community, recent projects
include the Guide to Australian Composers and 25 in 25 in collaboration with Limelight, and research into Australian art music commissioning rates and practice in partnership with Creative Australia.