Australian conductor Dane Lam is quickly gaining a reputation as an electrifying musician in a large and varied repertoire. Acclaimed as "one of the most talented young conductors Australia has produced", he holds the positions of Leverhulme Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and of Principal Conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. First appearing with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at age eighteen, Dane has since conducted the symphony orchestras of Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania and Queensland, the Manchester Camerata, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Sofia Festival Orchestra, Camerata Strumentale di Prato, and the Juilliard Orchestra.

Engagements in the 2009/10 season include concerts with many of the RNCM's orchestras, the Manchester Camerata and the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. As part of the RNCM's new production of La Clemenza di Tito, he will conduct several fully-stage performances. Dane will tour Asia as assistant to Kurt Masur and the Orchestre National de France and make his New Zealand debut with Dunedin's Southern Sinfonia. Additionally, he will return to his native Australia to tour with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as well as conducting the Beethovenhaus Orchestra, Bonn as part of Kurt Masur's International Beethoven Mastercourse.

2008/09 saw Dane attending the Verbier Festival's inaugural Conducting Academy as one of five conductors worldwide selected by Kurt Masur. In addition, he returned to his home town of Brisbane to lead the world premiere season of Jonathan Henderson's opera Dirty Apple with Opera Queensland as part of the Queensland Music Festival. Born into a musical family, Dane began to play the piano as a child, followed by studies in clarinet. He was first introduced to conducting through the Symphony Australia Conductor Program who noted his talent and nurtured his development. After completing his study at the University of Queensland under Gwyn Roberts, Dane was accepted, aged only twenty-two, as a postgraduate student under James DePreist, at New York's Juilliard School.

Distinguished conductors such as Kurt Masur, Christopher Seaman, Gianluigi Gelmetti, and now Sir Mark Elder, have mentored Dane Lam over the years. As assistant to Gelmetti, Dane 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 Michael Tilson-Thomas, Sir Charles Mackerras, Werner Andreas Albert, Jorma Panula and Johannes Fritzsch, among others.

Dane has received numerous awards and scholarships both in Australia and abroad. These include the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship, Boris Christoff Prize, Brian Stacey Memorial Prize, the Pellegrino Scholarship, the Brian Boak Bursary and the Dalley-Scarlett Memorial Scholarship. He has been supported by Symphony Australia, the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, the Ian Potter Foundation, Sydney Symphony's Stuart Challender Foundation and is a Young Artist with Opera Queensland.