(1958-02-11) 11 February 1958 (age 66) Ipoh, Malaysia
Occupation(s)
Musician, producer, music director
Instrument(s)
Piano
digital audio workstation
Years active
1981–present
Musical artist
Chong Voon LimAM (born 1958 in Ipoh, Malaysia) is a Malaysian-born Australian-based musical director, keyboardist, producer, and session musician. Lim attended St. Michael's Institution for secondary education.[1] He relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 1977, where he attended Geelong College, and then completed a mechanical engineering course at the University of Melbourne from 1978 to 1981.[1][2] Lim has toured with Jermaine Jackson and John Farnham, after Farnham's long-time collaborator David Hirschfelder left to concentrate on film scores. He has toured and been music director and producer for Olivia Newton-John since 1998 and is patron of the Olivia Newton-John Foundation.[3]
Lim is a consultant for the musical instrument company Roland Corporation, producer of an album for Tommy Emmanuel and wrote music for the 2000 Summer Olympics[4] in Sydney, was musical director and composer for the closing ceremony of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was also musical director for the stage version of Dirty Dancing, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and Kylie Minogue's Intimate and Live Tour.
In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours Lim was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant service to the performing arts as a musician, composer, producer and musical director, and to the community".[3]
^ ab"LIM, Voon Chong". Heritage Guide to The Geelong College. Geelong College. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
^"Chong Lim". John Farnham official website. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
^ ab"Member (AM) of the Order of Australia" (PDF). Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, Olympic Opening Ceremony (printed program), (Sydney 2000), p. 29.
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