Pronounced a ‘real talent’ by The Wall Street Journal, winner of the 2025 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album and finalist for 2024 and 2025 Limelight Artist of the Year, extraordinary Australian pianist Andrea Lam is also widely loved for her star role as classical expert in the ABC’s Logie-nominated television series, The Piano, watched by over one million viewers each week, with co-hosts Amanda Keller, Harry Connick Jr. and Guy Sebastian. Returned to Australia after two decades living in New York and touring the USA, Andrea 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, playing to 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.
Recent highlights include acclaimed performances of Strauss’s Burleske with Simone Young and the Sydney Symphony at Sydney Opera House, of Mozart at Sir Donald Runnicles’s Grand Teton Music Festival (USA), and as Artistic Curator and pianist for Four Winds Easter and June Long Weekend Concerts. Andrea featured with the Melbourne Symphony for the Classic 100 at Hamer Hall in 2024, 2025 and 2026, broadcast on ABC TV and iView; as soloist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s Winter Festival and toured nationally to critical acclaim for Musica Viva Australia with the Bach Goldberg Variations, alongside jazz luminary Paul Grabowsky. She is a frequent guest in recital series such as Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Music Series, at Melbourne Recital Centre, UKARIA Cultural Centre and beyond.
In 2026, Andrea shines as soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras with conductors Tabita Berglund, Benjamin Northey and Jen Winley; with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi, in recital with Sir Bryn Terfel at Sydney Opera House, as soloist with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, guest pianist with the Australian String Quartet and in solo recitals across the country. The 2027 season sees a return with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles, and in recital for the International Pianists in Recital series, and much more.
In addition to The Piano (ABC TV) – for which she received a 2026 Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Talent and the show, as voted winner of the 2026 ABC Friends Excellence Awards – Andrea’s guest appearances on the television include for Creative Types with Virginia Trioli, Portrait Artist of the Year and Spicks ‘n’ Specks. Bringing her pianistic insights to ever broader audiences, Andrea also presents the weekly radio show, The Art of the Piano, on ABC Classic.
Andrea’s award-winning solo album Piano Diary (ABC Classic, 2025) continues to earn widespread acclaim, as finalist in the 2026 Australian Independent Record Label (AIR) Awards, spending weeks at no.1 on the ARIA Classical and Classical/Crossover charts. Other recordings include of Matthew Hindson’s Sad Piano pieces (Idiom Records, 2024), Mozart concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with cellist Matt Haimovitz for Pentatone Oxingale and on the New York City-based Claremont Trio’s celebrated recordings, where Andrea was pianist (2010 – 2020). Winner of multiple international prizes, Andrea holds degrees from both the Manhattan School of Music and Yale University (USA) and is Lecturer in Piano at the University of Melbourne’s esteemed Conservatorium of Music.