Yam’s eclectic 2022-’23 calendar features performances in cross-disciplinary new operas, traditional operatic repertoire, and musical theater. She directs and composes for Nightingale Vocal Ensemble’s production of ADRIFT in March 2023.
Yam’s 2023 began with the premiere of Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Karen Russell’s The Night Falls, performing as Siren 1 with PEAK Performances at Montclair State University and produced by BalletCollective. She joins Overtone Industries at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club as the Bird in O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley’s premiere of ICELAND. Yam makes her company debut with White Snake Projects as a soloist in the virtual production of Fractured Mosaics.
She was awarded the New York District Winner prize in the Metropolitan Laffont Competition, and will compete in the 2023 Metropolitan Laffont Eastern Regional Finals on March 1st. She makes her company debut with Boston Baroque, performing the role of Diana in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. She then joins Boston Opera Collaborative, performing Giannetta and covering Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Yam returns to one of her favorite roles, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, with Chautauqua Opera in Summer 2023.
Yam’s 2022 concert appearances included debuts with the New York City Ballet (soprano soloist, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream), Carnegie Hall (chorus, Heidi Breyer: Amor Aeternus: Requiem for the Common Man), the New York Philharmonic Chorus, Opera Saratoga (soloist, Petite messe solennelle), and Music at Co-Cath (chorus, Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, directed by Anna Rebek).
Yam joined the New York City Ballet in Summer 2022 as the Soprano Soloist (Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream). In the same summer, Yam performed Johanna (Sondheim: Sweeney Todd), the Soprano Soloist (Rossini: Petite messe solennelle), and covered Elder (Lembit Beecher: Sky on Swings) as an Opera Saratoga Festival Artist.
In the 2021-22 season, Yam joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Singer, performing Cobweb (Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream) and covering Agave (John Corigliano’s Lord of Cries, world premiere), and singing in the chorus of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Yam debuted as a "wickedly funny and talented" Clorinda (Rossini: La Cenerentola) with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, also performing Bastienne (Mozart: Bastien & Bastienne) and Jazz Trio (Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti).
Yam made her professional debut with Opera Modesto as Mary Crawford (Dove: Mansfield Park), and holds a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory (2021), where she performed as Blanche de la Force (Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites), the Coloratura Soprano (Argento: Postcard from Morocco), Calisto (Cavalli: La Calisto), and the Soprano Soloist (Haydn's Die Schöpfung). Yam’s visionary 2021 recital was awarded 3rd place in the 2022 American Prize Competition for virtual performance.
