Pianist Corey Hamm is establishing a unique musical profile, performing widely across North America and Asia as both a soloist and chamber musician. His recording of Frederic Rzewski’s hour-long solo piano epic The People United Will Never Be Defeated! won Spotify’s Best Classical Recording (2014) and Best Classical Recording at the 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards. Further recording projects include the complete works for piano by Henri Dutilleux and a CD of solo works written for him by Canadian composers.

Corey Hamm has commissioned, premiered, and recorded over 200 works by composers from around the world. His most extensive collection of commissioned works includes more than 60 pieces for PEP (Piano and Erhu Project). Some of these works have already been released on two volumes of PEP CDs, with two additional volumes planned for 2017 and 2018.

He has also commissioned dozens of works for The Nu:BC Collective and for Hammerhead Consort. As a founding member of Hammerhead Consort, he received the 1993 Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Chamber Music Award and was the winner of the 1992 National Chamber Music Competition.

In recent years, Corey Hamm has recorded and toured one of the great piano works of recent decades—Frederic Rzewski’s monumental The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Redshift TK431). He is planning further performances of this masterpiece, notably in celebration of Rzewski’s 80th birthday in 2018.

Dr. Hamm is an award-winning Associate Professor of Piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and serves on the Piano Faculty of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) at the New England Conservatory in Boston. His esteemed teachers include Lydia Artymiw, Marek Jablonski, Stéphane Lemelin, Ernesto Lejano, and Thelma Johannes O’Neill.