Lim Yau is Resident Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir, Founder-Music Director of The Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Singapore.

He has guest conducted the Shanghai Symphony, Orchestra of National Opera and Ballet (China), Guangzhou Symphony, Philippines Philharmonic, State Philharmonics of Tirgu Mures, Satu Mare and Constanta in Romania, State Symphony of Krasnayarsk, Russian Philharmonic, Philippines Madrigal Singers, Lund University Male Chorus (Sweden), and has recorded for the Marco Polo and Naxos label with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus while he was their principal guest conductor from 1993 to 1997.

Lim Yau also works extensively as opera and ballet conductor, conducting no less than 20 productions for the Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO) and Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT). His passion for vocal music has led to a diversified collaboration with singers ranging from Susan Chilcott, Giacomo Aragall to the Anonymous 4 as well as the legendary Cuban Omara Portuondo.

Notable performances in the last season include the Singapore premiere of Corigliano’s The Red Violin Concerto, Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Latvian State Choir and SDT (Singapore Arts Festival 2007), Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (SLO), Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Haydn’s The Creation (SSO/SSC) in addition to SSO concerts with Dimitri Makhtin, Gordon Hunt and Marc-André Hamelin. Guest engagements in the coming season include the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Opera House Chorus, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra and The Riga Festival of Sacred Music, SLO’s The Barber of Seville and Verdi’s La Traviata. He conducted a Sibelius symphony cycle in three concerts with The Philharmonic Orchestra at the Esplanade Concert Hall in March.

Lim Yau graduated from the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and had the privilege of working under mentors such as Sergiu Celibidache in Munich and Franco Ferrara in Siena. In recognition of his contribution to music, Lim Yau was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 1990.