Pualina Lim Mei En
Collaborative Piano Fellow (2022, 2026)
Singaporean pianist Pualina Lim Mei En is a passionate collaborative musician who has performed extensively across the United States and internationally, including in Singapore, Canada, Indonesia, and Japan.
She has been featured on Oregon’s All Classical Radio and at festivals such as the Manchester Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival, and is very happy to be returning to Chamber Music Northwest’s Young Artist Institute.
An accomplished collaborative pianist, Pualina has collaborated with distinguished artists including Soovin Kim in Jordan Hall’s First Monday concert series, Claire Wells at Oregon Bach Festival, Emerson String Quartet violinist Philip Setzer and baritone Randall Scarlata. She is the pianist of The Lina Duo, a violin-piano duo with Célina Bethoux.
In 2022, Pualina appeared as concerto soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert attended by the President of Singapore. She has also performed with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra as concerto competition winner, and in the same year was awarded the Best Accompanist prize.
Deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians, Pualina serves as staff pianist at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and actively supports young artists in concerto competitions throughout the Greater Boston area. She is also dedicated to community engagement, sharing violin-piano and piano four-hands music in community spaces and senior homes.
Pualina received her Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Music in collaborative piano from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Pei-Shan Lee and Cameron Stowe. She was awarded the Gunther Schuller Medal in recognition of her extraordinary contributions and was a repeated recipient of the Francis W. Hatch, Sr. Presidential Scholarship. She was also generously supported by Singapore’s Trailblazer Foundation. Pualina completed undergraduate studies in Piano Performance at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, where she received the National University of Singapore Society Medal for Outstanding Achievement.
In her free time, she finds solitude and peace in nature, a cozy café trip, and loves good sushi.