Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Sinfonia. His performances have been regularly broadcast on Canadian and Australian national radio and television. Tam has performed at the Montreal
International Festival of Music as violinist and pianist and made his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. He made his
Paris concerto debut playing the Ligeti violin concerto with the Academ of 20th Century Music Orchestra under conductor
Jonathan Nott. Tam has previously held the position of Concertmaster with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia
as well as with Symphony Nova Scotia in Canada.

An active chamber musician, Tam’s performances have been heard at major music festivals including the Sarasota, Ravinia, Meadowmount, Banff, Aspen, Encore, Hamptons, Scotiafest and La Conner festivals. He has performed with distinguished
musicians from the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Ying and Pacifica string quartets. In recent seasons he has been the featured guest
violinist at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, Artist in Residence of the St. Cecilia Concert Series in Halifax, featured
violinist at the 35th International Viola Congress in Australia and guest violinist at the Eine Kleine Summer Music Festival in Victoria.

Tam has been a prizewinner of international and national competitions including the Pierre Lantier International Violin Competition in Paris, the Rameau International Violin Competition, the CBC Young Artist’s Competition, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. Tam is a recipient of grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts as well as the Chalmer’s Foundation of the Ontario Arts Council.

Tam studied at the Glenn Gould School of Music Toronto where he was a double major with full scholarships in violin and piano. His teachers included Jaime Laredo, Jose Luis Garcia, Leon Fleisher and Boris Lysenko. Subsequently, he received a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore where he studied violin with Victor Danchenko. Studies in Europe followed, at Berlin’s Hochschule fur Musik “Hanns Eisler” with violinist and conductor, Christoph Poppen.as well as in Paris with members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Tam has been on the string faculty of the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music and
enjoys giving masterclasses and chamber music coachings across Canada.