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An Ethnomusicologist by trade and has received training under the mentorship of the great father of Ethnomusicology, Mantle Hood.   Lim is a producer, composer, percussionist, pianist, and an educator.  He was born in Hong Kong and moved to San Francisco after his college years in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. While in Baltimore, he attended Towson University and studied composition privately with Gordon Cyr, student of Roger Sessions at UC Berkeley. During his graduate studies, he met Pak Minarno from the Indonesian Embassy and began his life long research on central Javanese music and dancing.  After service in the Washington DC area, Mr. Lim moved to San Francisco started his music school, Music City Academy and remains to be active in the private teaching arena.  Mr. Lim joint City College of San Francisco in 1999, and has remain as music faculty teaching Ethnomusicology presently.  Topics of Mr. Lim’s special lectures include:  Contemporary Songs of Hong Kong, a counter part to the “American Idle” Yearly lecture series at City College of San Francisco, and 2002 “Kun Que Opera style and musical instruments”.  Mr. Lim also made a documentary film in 1988 "Chinese Percussion Instruments in Western Musical Repertoire: An Example of, Zhong Yiu-Kwong's Composition, Chariots Ballad".  Mr. Lim is a contributed writer of a textbook; Music! It’s Role and Importance in Our Lives”.  Among Lim’s compositions:- 1995 Etude, Piano Solo;1988 Oriental Fantasy, tenor saxophone; 1987 Good News, jazz chart; 1987 Concertino for horn, solo French horn and piano; 1987 The Creation: the Fourth Day, percussion ensemble - 8 players; 1986 The Biggest Elephant, tuba and piano; 1986 The Creation: the third day, solo percussionist and percussion ensemble;  1984 Vocane Music II "Paradise". Flute and Piano.  The Symphonic Poem: The Rape of Nanking is a new composition composed in 2016 that has a gap of 21 years without new works.