Winner of BBC Music Magazine’s Best Newcomer of the Year Award
in 2013, Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo dazzled critics and
audiences at the award ceremony with her ‘liberating’ and ‘virtuoso
display’ (The Times).
Following the success of her debut recording, Recital,
Mei Yi’s latest award-winning album,
Musical Toys, was featured in The
Times, The Examiner, and Neue Zurcher
Zeitung. It was Lebrecht’s CD of the Week and
garnered 5* reviews from BBC Music Magazine and
Germany's Klassik.
Since winning the Maria Callas Grand Prix’08 in Athens, Mei
Yi has captivated audiences across Europe, the Americas
and Asia. She has been hailed ‘a pianist to watch’ by BBC
Radio 3, and ‘ a rising star’ by International Piano. David
Nice on The Arts Desk recently wrote that ‘her genius is now
unquestionable’.
Working alongside conductors such as Matthias Bamert, Martyn
Brabbins, Claus Peter Flor, János Fürst, Kirill Karabits, John
Storgårds and Christopher Warren-Green, Mei Yi has appeared with
the BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Fort
Worth Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and
London Chamber Orchestra.
As a new music advocate, she has performed at Vienna’s
Schoenberg Centre, Park Lane Group at the Southbank, Huddersfield
Festival, Ultraschall Festival in Berlin and Pinakothek der Moderne
in Munich.
Mei Yi lives in London and enjoys playing chamber music with
Dimitri Ashkenazy, Shlomy Dobrinsky, Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Antti
Siirala, Matthew Trusler, Ashley Wass, as well as working with
prominent composers such as Dai Fujikura, Chris Paul Harman and
Unsuk Chin.