Composer
Reverie - A musical daydream…
“Reverie…is deliberately pop-video in style, forming an intriguing complement to the contemporary classical music.” – Planet Hugill
Reverie is Julian’s debut Classical Music video, a romantic daydream trip in the English countryside featuring two musical young lovers. With original words and music by Julian, as part of his song-cycle 'Dreaming', the video was shot on Super8 film by Sophie Siem, and features rising-star soprano Isabelle Peters alongside Julian and acclaimed pianist Dylan Perez.
Yeah Shanghai! - Lynton
“LYNTON might have Shanghai’s hottest summer single in ‘Yeah Shanghai!” - That’s Shanghai
LYNTON’s (aka Julian Chou-Lambert) debut single Yeah Shanghai! combines Chinese and Western jazz and electronic instruments and influences, includes bilingual English-Mandarin lyrics, and features a sample of Zhou Xuan’s iconic ‘Ye Shanghai’ song. LYNTON directed the accompanying music video for the song, which was filmed on location in Shanghai.
Biography
Julian Chou-Lambert’s musical development was influenced growing up across western and eastern cultures in Cambridge, Singapore and Shanghai. He was awarded first class honours in Music (MA) from Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a Mus B in cross-cultural perception of emotion in music, before graduating with a Masters with Distinction in Vocal Performance from the Royal Academy of Music. Julian particularly enjoys writing music with a vocal element, and combines his experience of singing classical and jazz music and playing oboe, violin and piano with his experience as a DJ for electronic music to create unique sound worlds.
Julian’s recent Classical music video Reverie, featuring rising-star soprano Isabelle Peters, was selected as a finalist in both the Rome Music Video Awards and the International Music Video Awards. Julian’s debut hip-hop release and music video Yeah Shanghai!, which he also performed and directed, has won Best Asia-Pacific Music Video at the International Sound Future Awards.
Julian won second prize at the Deutsche Bank Awards for Music for film composition. Film score credits include feature film Bonobo starring James Norton, which premiered at Raindance Film Festival, the BBC documentary Art of the Night with renowned art expert Waldemar Januszczak, Avant Garde Youth, a contemporary dance commission for Sky TV, and Isis: Egyptian Goddess by Sophie Siem, which received an honourable mention at the London X4 - Seasonal Short Film Festival.
His mini-opera The Lingerer was selected by Nico Muhly as a finalist in the English National Opera mini-opera competition. His song cycle Sommerlied und Winterleid was recorded by Thomas Guthrie, and another song cycle Dreaming was recorded by members of Trinity College Choir.