Madeline Kam – Director of Development, China & South East Asia

Ms Madeline Kam studied both piano performance and pedagogy in the United States. She furthered her studies and attained CT ABRSM, ARSM, DipABRSM (Piano Teaching) and LRSM (Performing and Teaching) in Hong Kong. Madeline is the first CT ABRSM holder candidate in Asia to obtain the professional qualification of FRSM (Music Education).

Ms Madeline Kam studied both piano performance and pedagogy in the United States. She furthered her studies and attained CT ABRSM, ARSM, DipABRSM (Piano Teaching) and LRSM (Performing and Teaching) in Hong Kong. Madeline is the first CT ABRSM holder candidate in Asia to obtain the professional qualification of FRSM (Music Education).

Madeline mentors post-graduate pianists at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Madeline is a collaborative pianist and frequently performs with instrumentalists from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. For her Fellowship dissertation Madeline researched piano teaching and learning styles in mainland China in a comparative study with Western influenced methodologies in Hong Kong. Madeline has worked for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, variously as a simultaneous Interpreter from English to Cantonese and to Mandarin at more than 150 teacher seminars, the HR manager for the ABRSM Hong Kong youth orchestra for gifted and talented players, ‘The Celebration Symphony orchestra’ and as an Interpreter in the examination room for music examiners and candidates.

Madeline currently serves as the Asia Consultant to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, The Development Director for China and South-east Asia for the European String Teacher Association and, along with Bill Thomson, has travelled throughout mainland China as a co-presenter for Faber Music’s Paul Harris piano publications. Madeline has performed and presented at ABRSM Asia Conferences in Singapore, Chiang Mai (in Northern Thailand) and performed the Goldberg Variations on a European harpsichord, procured from a Royal Palace, in Bangkok. Madeline’s Master’s degree, from the University of Sheffield, is in music education.