Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred Music
Edith Yam
CURRENT STUDENT PROFILE
Australian-born Edith Yam is finishing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studies organ with Prof. David Higgs. She also serves as his teaching assistant, and has taught secondary organ. Edith’s DMA lecture-recital was on nineteenth-century performance practice, which she also had the privilege to present at the University of Michigan’s 63rd Annual Organ Conference.
Edith holds a Bachelor of Music degree (with First Class Honours) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where she studied with Philip Swanton. Further studies have taken Edith to Europe where she completed an exchange semester during her undergraduate years at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen where she studied with Klaus Eichhorn, and a Master’s degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she studied with Pieter van Dijk and Matthias Havinga. Edith has played in masterclasses of many internationally renowned organists, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Louis Robilliard, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry, and Arvid Gast. She has also performed at many venues around the world including the Sydney Town Hall (Australia), Orgelpark in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and St. Cosmae and Damien in Stade (Germany).
Edith currently serves as Organist/Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist in Spencerport, and teaches lower school music at St. John Bosco Schools in East Rochester. She was also recently invited to perform in Methuen, MA for their 2024 summer series.