Chan Kiat Lim has performed solo and chamber recitals in Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Romania, and throughout the United States including solo performances at Music at Penn Alps Concert Series in Maryland and twice at Steinway Hall, New York City.

As a performer, Lim champions music beyond the canon of classical art music, and is an enthusiastic interpreter of new and underrepresented music, particularly works by American composers. He was awarded the Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant to release a CD An American Kaleidoscope, featuring two world-premieres by musical giants and Pulitzer Prize winners, William Bolcom and Ned Rorem. Endorsing Lim’s performance on this CD, Rorem writes that "His aims are rare and high, and his means are perfect."

A pedagogue and clinician, he is an active presenter at international and national music conferences on performance and pedagogical topics. Lim is co-authored of eNovativePiano, an online multimedia curriculum for piano instruction and elearning. Its multimedia content and transformative approach point towards a new direction in piano instruction, and was the recipient of the 2021 MTNA-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award.

Lim is an Endowed Professor of Piano at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where teaches piano performance, keyboard literature, class piano, and the heads the Keyboard Studies Area. In 2015, Lim received the UL-Lafayette Distinguished Professor Award and the Louisiana Music Teachers Association Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2020, he was honored as a MTNA Foundation Fellow.