Eric Lamb

Eric Lamb is a Singapore and Vienna -based flutist active internationally as a chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and educator. He performs a broad spectrum of repertoire with a focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and collaborative chamber work. Formerly a core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Lamb has maintained ongoing engagements with leading orchestras and ensembles including the Boulez Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, der gelbe klang (Munich), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Geneva Camerata, Camerata Bern, PHACE, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, among others. His festival appearances include the Salzburg Festival, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Lockenhaus, Acht Brücken (Cologne), Mostly Mozart (New York), Heidelberg Spring Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, and the Bucharest New Music Festival.

A committed advocate for contemporary music, Lamb has premiered over 200 new works in collaboration with composers such as Enno Poppe, Sir George Benjamin, Kaija Saariaho, George Lewis, Michael Jarrell, John Adams, Julia Purgina, Ivan Buffa, HK Gruber, Matthias Pintscher, and Nico Muhly. He has worked with conductors including Sakari Oramo, François-Xavier Roth, Franz Welser-Möst, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Susanna Mälkki, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Steve Schick. His discography includes more than 15 commercially released recordings, ranging from Bach, Telemann, and Schubert to Xenakis and Jason Eckhardt, on labels such as Kairos, paladino, SONY, Hyperion, NMC, mode, New Amsterdam, NAXOS, Bridge, Starkland, and Nonesuch.

Lamb studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Michel Debost and at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt am Main, where he earned both the diploma and concert soloist diploma. He is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Winds, Brass and Percussion at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore.