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Corey Hamm [piano] is an Associate Director of the Young Artist Experience summer programme, Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at The University of British Columbia, and also co-director with Giorgio Magnanensi, of the UBC Contemporary Players. He is pianist with the prominent new music ensembles Hammerhead Consort and The Nu:BC Collective. With Nu:BC he has performed multimedia concerts of works by many composers of today. Hammerhead Consort was broadcast from the prestigious Witold Lutoslawski Studio on tour in Poland in June 2000 under the auspices of both The Canada Council and Polish Radio. Hammerhead won Best Classical Recording at the 1993 ARIA Awards. CBC Radio recorded Hammerhead in premieres of works by Hamel, Helweg and Godin at the opening concert of New Music Concerts 2004-2005 season in Toronto. The Consort premiered Howard Bashaw’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Two Percussion with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in March 2000. They have won such important Canadian awards as the Sir Ernest Macmillan Memorial Foundation Chamber Music Award (1992), and the CIBC National Music Competition (1991). He has been involved in the commissioning of over sixty solo, chamber and concerto works and has performed with the Lethbridge Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and The Symphonic Wind Ensemble of Minneapolis. Hamm has also performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on its Roundhouse and Musically Speaking series. Corey Hamm won first prize in the 2004 Elinor Bell Piano Fellowship Competition in Minnesota, was a semi-finalist in the 5th Orleans International Contemporary Piano Competition in Orleans, France 2002, and was the second prizewinner at the 1995 Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition for Contemporary Piano Music.