Hailed as one of the "most talented young conductors Australia has produced" [Limelight Magazine, Australia, June 2007] as well as one of its "brightest hopes" [The Australian, April 20 2007], Queensland native Dane Lam was accepted in 2007 into New York's prestigious Juilliard School at only age 22. Lam was first introduced to conducting through Symphony Services Australia who noticed his talent and nurtured his development. He has, so far, impressed audiences and orchestras alike with his commitment to musical interpretation despite his young age; his charming sensibilities; and individual musical voice.

Dane Lam has conducted the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra and the Orchestra of the University of Queensland.

Lam has received numerous awards and scholarships both in Australia and abroad. These include the Brian Stacey Memorial Prize for Emerging Australian Conductors and the Pellegrino Scholarship awarded under the auspices of the Italian Consulate for further studies in Italy. He is a beneficiary of the Symphony Services Australia Podium Program as well as the Sydney Symphony's Stuart Challender Foundation and is a Young Artist with Opera Queensland. The position at Opera Queensland has been funded by the Australia Council, the Federal funding body for the arts in Australia. Internationally, Dane Lam has been awarded the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship from the Juilliard School and the Boris Christoff Scholarship from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy awarded annually to an outstanding member of the orchestral conducting class.

Born in Brisbane, Australia, Dane Lam began taking piano lessons at the age of six. He studied piano and conducting at the University of Queensland, Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 2006. In 2007 he was accepted simultaneously by the Royal College of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York to pursue his Master of Music in conducting. Dane chose to enrol in the Juilliard's conducting program and moved to New York to study with James DePreist.

Distinguished and established conductors such as Gianluigi Gelmetti and Christopher Seaman have nurtured taught and mentored Dane over the years. As assistant to Gelmetti, Lam had the opportunity to conduct the Sydney Symphony both in concert at the Sydney Opera House and on the orchestra's Regional Tour as well as studying at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He has attended masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Charles Mackerras, Werner Andreas Albert and Jorma Panula, among others.

Dane Lam was featured on 4MBS Classic FM [Brisbane] in July 2007 with the Uni-versity of Queensland Symphony Orchestra; on ABC Classic FM and ABC TV in September 2006 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as well as on sydneysymphony.com in live 'webcast' in October 2004 with the Sydney Symphony.