Praised for a voice of "deliciously deep and rich," (Birmingham Post), Hong Kong baritone Michael Chun Ting Lam is a wide-ranging opera and concert soloist. He trained the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Hungary, as a recipient of the Joseph Weingarten Scholarship. He received his Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where he was awarded the St Clare Barfield Memorial Bowl for Operatic Distinction and was supported by Opera Hong Kong K Wah International Vocal Scholarship, Foundation for the Arts and Music in Asia Limited (FAMA) Vocal Scholarships and Birmingham Conservatoire Scholarship Fund. Prior to that, he gained his Bachelor of Music from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he received a number of scholarships, including Welsh Male Choir Scholarship, the Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund, Mr Ng Fung Chow Memorial Scholarships, The Hong Kong Children's Choir Chan Ho Choi Memorial Scholarship and Michael Rippon Memorial Scholarship. He has studied singing with Klemens Cheng, Gerald Hon, David Quah, acclaimed Welsh baritone Gwion Thomas and the world-renowned Hungarian tenor, Kiss B. Atilla.

Passionate about opera, Michael has sung more than 40 operatic roles and performed for opera companies, orchestras and festivals in Asia and Europe, including Opera Hong Kong, Musica Viva, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Grand Opera, Silent Opera, Winslow Hall Opera, OperaUpClose, Grimeborn Opera Festival, Passaggio Oper, Opéra de Baugé, Vietnam National Opera & Ballet, Orchestra of the Music Makers Singapore, Lyric Opera of the Philippines, and more. He has sung the title roles of Macbeth, Don Pasquale, Giulio Cesare and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tonio(Pagliacci), Alfio(Cavalleria Rusticana), Count Almaviva(Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo & Don Alfonso(Così Fan Tutte), Il Commendatore(Don Giovanni), Marcello & Colline(La Bohème), Timur(Turandot), Bonze(Madama Butterfly), Marco(Gianni Schicchi), Escamillo(Carmen), The Four Villains(Les Contes d'Hoffmann),  Forester(The Cunning Little Vixen), Bottom(A Midsummer Night's Dream), Belcore(L'elisir d'amore), Lord Guglielmo Cecil(Maria Stuarda), Lord Rochefort(Anna Bolena), Don Magnifico(La Cenerentola), Death(Sāvitri), Le Fauteuil(L'enfant et les sortilèges), Donner(Das Rheingold), Silvano(Un Ballo in Maschera), Mr. Gedge(Albert Herring), Count Ceprano(Rigoletto), Baron Douphol(La Traviata), Dr Blind(Die Fledermaus), Ben Upthegrove(The Telephone) and David(The hand of Bridge), among others. A fan and advocate of contemporary music, Michael has created several roles in the world premieres of operas, including the Young Man 3 in Huang Ruo's Dr. Sun Yat-Sen(2011) for Opera Hong Kong, Sakyamuni, the Buddha in Anna Vienna Ho’s Buddha and the Monkey King(2020), The Monk of the River(2021) and Xuanzang in The Monster of Gao Village(2023) for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, The Lead Picker in Daniel Blanco Albert's Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing(2021) for Infinite Opera and Post Workers Theatre, Ah Q in Hing-yan Chan's Kungfood(2023)&(2022 recording) for Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Confucius in Gustav Ka Lok Mak's The Legend of Confucius(2022) for Global Symphony Orchestra; and main roles in pasticcios including Don Basilio in Fortunes of Figaro(2017) for Opera Novella, Argante in Armida(2018) for Zeneakadémia and Eisenstein in Merry Party(2022) for Bel Canto Singers. He has also sung the role of Mr. Crow in the Asian premiere of Pierangelo Valtinoni's The Snow Queen for Yip's Children's Choir in 2023. 

Michael has also performed actively as a concert soloist. His past concert engagements include: the bass solo in Haydn's Nelson Mass with The Really Big Chorus and Hong Kong Police Choir; the bass solo in J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D Major with Hong Kong Oratorio Society, HKOS Cantata Singers and HKFYG Hong Kong Melody Makers; the baritone solo and bass solo in Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht with Hong Kong Oratorio Society; the bass solo in Handel's Messiah with Hong Kong SingFest; the bass solo in J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D Major with Village Voices UK; the baritone solo in Faure's Requiem with Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society; the baritone solo in Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem with The Guild Consort Choir; the bass solo in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Gustav Mahler Orchestra. He has also performed as the baritone soloist in Opera Galas for Red Earth Opera, Midland Opera, Oxford Opera Society, Józsa Judit Galéria, and Holy Trinity Church Coventry. He has also been giving solo recitals regularly, including one at St Andrew's Church Rugby as part of the Rugby Festival of Culture 2019 and one at Hong Kong City Hall as part of Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department's “Our Music Talents” series 2022. He has sung the role of Konfuzius in Gustav Ka Lok Mak's Die Legende von Konfuzius(excerpts) with the Budapest MÁV Symphony Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna under the baton of Maestro Mak in 2022; as a guest soloist in the CityU Choir: "Bravo! Brava! Bravi!" concert, as part of the CityU Arts Festival 2022/23. In 2023, he was invited to be the guest soloist in the Wong Tai Sin Children's Choir 50th Anniversary Concert. In 2024, he performed a recital at the Hong Kong International Institute of Music, as part of their "I Feel the Art of Spring at HKIIM" annual community circle theatre outdoor concert series and sang the title role of Mendelssohn's Elijah with The Learners Chorus and Orchestra.

Michael was a first-prize winner of numerous international and national singing competitions, including Hong Kong International Music Festival Vocal Competition, International Music Competition "London" Grand Prize Virtuoso, International Music Competition "Rome", Leamington Spa Competitive Festival, Abergavenny Eisteddfod Y Fenni, Birmingham Conservatoire Singing Prize, Philip Bates Trust Ashleyan Opera Prize, The North International Music Competition, International Music Competition "Таланты XXI века", Quebec International Music Competition, International Music Competition "ИСКУССТВО! ДРУЖБА! МИР!", IYMC Classical Music International Competition, King's Peak International Music Competition, Odin International Music Competition, Swiss International Music Competition, Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition, Global Genius Music Competition, Grand Music Collection Italian International Competition, and International Online Vocal Competition "The Song", to name a few. He has been given the Gil Rodriguez Scholarship Award from Opéra de Baugé for his outstanding contribution to the 2019 Operatic Season. 

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