Kaykay Lai (Director and Piano Teacher)

Piano, Theory, Composition
Bachelor of Music (Honours), University of Melbourne;

Bachelor of Music (Performance & Composition), Australian National University

Master of Applied Teaching (Music), Victoria University

Kaykay holds a Bachelor of Music (Degree with Honours) with First Class Honours at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Piano Performance at Australian National University School of Music as a recipient of the Dennis Griffin Piano Undergraduate Scholarship.

Kaykay has won awards at numerous regional and national competitions and has performed in many public concerts. In 2023, he was selected as a participant of Flinders Quartet Emerge Composer Program. In 2022, He was the winner of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Sutherland Piano Trio Prize and the winner of Australian Artology’s To Country Program. In the same year, he made his Melbourne’s performance debut in Hamer Hall and Melbourne Recital Centre. He was also the winner of Australian Artology’s Fanfare Competition and the finalist of Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition in 2021. In the same year, he gave a piano recital at the Embassy of Hungary, Canberra. He also won the First Prize in the 2014 Chopin International Youth Piano Competition.

Kaykay’s compositions have been premiered and played by Flinders Quartet, The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony, Sutherland Trio, Queensland Youth Orchestra, Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Adelaide Youth Orchestra, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Percussion Ensemble, and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Saxophone Ensemble.

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