Winner of the 2013 BBC Music Magazine’s Best Newcomer award, Foo Mei Yi is an internationally acclaimed pianist celebrated for her eclectic repertoire and adventurous artistry. She performs across five continents with top orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony and appears at major festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Born Creative Tokyo, Punkt Festival Norway, and Southbank Centre’s ‘Music of Today’. Her performances have garnered rave reviews from The Times, The Independent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Klassik Magazine.

A passionate advocate for new music, Mei Yi has worked with leading composers including Unsuk Chin, Dai Fujikura and Chris Paul Harman, releasing world-premiere recordings of their works on Odradek, Sony and Naxos. She drives multidisciplinary collaborations across the arts and is the Founder and Music Director of the Nine Arts Festival in Negeri Sembilan.

Born in Malaysia and now based in the UK, Mei Yi teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was formerly Artist-in-Residence at Maynooth University in Ireland. An alumna of the Royal College of Music, she is also an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Foundation Fellow of Wells Cathedral School. In recognition of her artistic contributions, she was awarded the Setiawan Tuanku Muhriz medal in Malaysia.

"Her genius is now unquestionable"