FRSM, LRSM, DipABRSM, ARSM, CTABRSM
Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music (Music Education)
Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (Instrumental Teaching & Performing)
Diploma of the Royal Schools of Music (Principles of Instrumental Teaching)
Associate of the Royal Schools of Music
Advanced Certificate ABRSM
Certificate of Teaching ABRSM
Ms Madeline Kam studied both piano performance and pedagogy in the United States. She furthered her studies and attained CT ABRSM, ARSM, DipABRSM (Piano Teaching) and LRSM (Performing and Teaching) in Hong Kong. Madeline is the first CT ABRSM holder candidate in Asia to obtain the professional qualification of FRSM (Music Education). It proves her outstanding performance skills as well as her comprehensive musical knowledge through completing an academic essay related to diversities of Piano Teaching and Learning between Hong Kong and China by visiting across cities in China and interviewing numerous famous musicians and pedagogues.
Throughout the years, Madeline attended various concerts and she was invited to be the performing guests in seminars in Hong Kong and overseas. Besides piano performing, Madeline is passionate about piano teaching. She devotes herself into music education by running various music and piano teacher support courses and lectures across HK and Mainland China as well as giving music tuition at HK high school. She is now being the music mentor for the HKDSE and the interpreter for the course of CT ABRSM and other ABRSM professional development events as well as ABRSM examinations.
Apart from that, she also has been adjudicating different music and piano competition and also engaged in making recordings for various platforms. In 2018, she is appointed to be the Development Director of ESTA Education (UK) aiming at developing teacher supports in the music and music education industry in East Asia including providing workshops and courses to enhance their quality of teaching.
To extending her musical knowledge through the role of being a music teacher, Madeline discovers and reinforces every student’s ability in terms of playing the piano and appreciating music. Madeline’s students range from beginner to diploma level including universities music students and current school music and individual piano teachers. She dedicated to pursue her teaching philosophy of cultivating and nurturing students’ ability and humanity so as to achieve a higher standard of music education. For her own professional development, she is currently taking a Master Degree in Applied Professional Studies in Education at University of Sheffield in UK.