Profession:
Artistic Director, Artistic Producer, Musician
Based Location:
Klang Valley
Visual Age Range:
41-45
Gender:
Female
Ethnicity:
Chinese
Height (CM):
165cm
Winner of the 2013 BBC Music Magazine Best Newcomer Award, Mei Yi performs prolifically with orchestras across five continents. She appears at major festivals including the Lucerne Festival, Ultraschall Berlin, Born Creative Tokyo, Punkt Festival in Norway, and London’s Southbank Centre Music of Today. Her recordings on Sony, Naxos, and Odradek have earned critical praise from The Times, The Independent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Klassik Magazine.
Born in Malaysia and now based in the UK, Mei Yi is a professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and served as Artist-in-Residence at Maynooth University Ireland. She was awarded the Setiawan Tuanku Muhriz medal for her contributions to the arts. In 2025, she founded the Nine Arts Festival in Negeri Sembilan, where she serves as Artistic Director.
