PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall
United Nations General Assembly Hall
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Merkin Concert Hall (New York City)
Steinway Hall, New York
Bösendorfer Hall (Vienna)
Jakarta Arts Center
Yamaha Hall (Indonesia)
Aspen Music Festival
AWARDS/HONORS
MTNA Foundation Fellow Award, 2019
Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM), since 2012
Young Artist Piano Award (Artists International), 1996
Baldwin Piano Award, 1992
Winner, Concerto Competition (Eastern Music Festival), 1993
Top Prize, Stravinsky Concerto Competition (Manhattan School of Music), 1994
Top Prize, Yamaha National Piano Competition,1989
Dora Zaslavsky Koch Piano Scholarship
Manhattan School of Music Presidential Merit Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
Head of the Piano Department, Westminster Conservatory of Music, Princeton, 2020 to present
Piano Faculty, Westminster Conservatory of Music, Princeton, 2004 to present
Artistic Director & Chief Advisor, Elly Lim Conservatory of Music, 2018 to present
Founder and Artistic Director, Elly Lim Music Festival, 2018 to present
Chief Advisor& Head of Conservatory Department, E.L.M.S. Conservatory—Jakarta, 2007 to 2018
Columnist, Advice Column for Staccato (monthly music education magazine in Indonesia), 2004 to present
President, New York State Music Teachers Association (NYSMTA), 2020 to 2022
President, New Jersey Music Teachers Association (NJMTA), 2015 to 2017
Music Director, Watchung Presbyterian Church, 2018 to 2021
Music Director, Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church/ U.C.C., 2000 to 2007
Piano Faculty, Stecher and Horowitz School of the Arts, 1996 to 1999
Frequent Adjudicator for local, national and international piano competitions and auditions
TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS
60-minute Live TV interview on “Hello VOA”, Voice of America
30-minute interview on “Musician’s Life,” FM Classic Radio
Live Interview, Sonora FM & Ramaco FM
National Headline News
National English News TV
AnTeve Network
Indo Siar TV (Indonesia)
EDUCATION
D.M.A.,M.M., B.M., Manhattan School of Music
L.R.S.M. Diploma with highest Distinction, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Piano Teachers: Constance Keene, Herbert Stessin, Robert Weirich, Jung-Ja Kim
Chamber Music Teachers: Jeanne Baxtresser, Sylvia Rosenberg, Frank Morelli, Linda Chesis
Master Classes: Peter Frankl, Charles Rosen, Michael Ponti, Lillian Freundlich, Paul Badura-Skoda
Piano Pedagogy: Elly Lim, Paul Sheftel, Vera Wills, Melvin Stecher, Norman Horowitz
SPECIAL SKILLS
Multilingual in English, Indonesian, Mandarin and Chinese dialects
Computer Literacy