Short Name: | Swee-Hong Lim |
Full Name: | Lim, Swee-Hong |
Birth Year: | 1963 |
Dr. Swee Hong Lim is the Deer Park Assistant Professor of Sacred Music at Emmanuel College, and the Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program. He also serves as Director of the Chapel for the worship life of Emmanuel College. Before joining Emmanuel on July 1, 2012, Dr. Lim served as an Assistant Professor of Church Music at Baylor University. Prior to his work at Baylor, he served as a Lecturer of Worship, Liturgy, and Music at Trinity Theological College in Singapore.
Swee Hong is widely utilized as a leader for global seminars and conferences dealing with sacred music. He currently serves as the Co-Moderator of the Worship Committee for the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches for its meeting in Busan, South Korea (2013), and also served as a member of the Worship Planning Committee for the 2011 Ecumenical Peace Convocation sponsored by the World Council held in Jamaica. From 2008-2010, he chaired the Board of Worship and Music for the Trinity Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Singapore.
Swee Hong holds a PhD in Liturgical Studies from Drew University, where his dissertation won the Helen LePage and William Hale Chamberlain Prize for Outstanding Dissertation. He also holds a Master of Arts in Sacred Music from Perkins School of Theology. He completed his undergraduate work in Church Music at the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music in the Philippines. Swee Hong is well-published in global music, with his monograph, Giving Voice to Asian Christians, especially known among global musicians. He is also a prolific composer of hymnody.
By Swee Hong Lim, From: http://www.emmanuel.utoronto.ca/about/faculty/lim.htm, 24 June 2014.
Tunes by Swee-Hong Lim (33) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[Yuan Zhu di ai yu ni tong zai] | Lim Swee Hong (Arranger) | 2 | 11555 45432 13217 |
YINCÁNG | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 53127 17655 64511 |
XIN LAI | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 53322 11554 32533 |
SOON TI | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 11 | 56121 65612 1232 |
WAIRUA TAPU | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 5 | 56112 35321 1615 |
[Still for thy lovingkindness Lord] | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 11155 34155 57231 |
SOON EE | Swee-Hong Lim (Composer) | 3 | 56161 23532 32165 |
SINGAPURA | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 5 | |
[Sing with a tuneful spirit] | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 35652 33356 55235 |
SHUANGXI | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 34516 71234 53164 |
ROMATA | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 51123 32511 27511 |
QI WANG | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 53453 43223 21125 |
[Our Father in heaven] (Lim) | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | |
MENEBUS | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | 51116 55111 34345 |
MAI | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 33161 23453 13233 |
LORNA | Swee Hong Lim, b. 1963 (Composer) | 3 | 11115 65453 43213 |
[Lord, have mercy] (Lim) | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 3 | 66564 66564 43214 |
LIANHUA | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 13556 45434 4671 |
[Jesus, Lord, we look to thee] (Lim) | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 35653 16561 65321 |
HUACO | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | |
[How tranquil, how calm is the night] | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 53221 12314 43212 |
GIFT OF GRACE | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | 51155 65453 54532 |
FORGET-ME-NOT | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 34554 32123 34554 |
EIRENE (Lim) | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 12353 21235 31665 |
DI MANA ALLAH | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 51232 12512 343 |
DAMAI | Swee Hong Lim, 1963- (Composer) | 2 | 11117 17511 11712 |
CHU LEUNG | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 7 | 53555 55432 56121 |
CARTERET ISLANDS | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 15554 55755 45155 |
CAIRDE | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 11751 23212 32111 |
BUSAN | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | 11133 21211 33445 |
ASAS | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 2 | 35535 44445 32333 |
AIKA | Lim Swee Hong (Composer) | 2 | 55545 44443 13234 |
AI HU | Swee Hong Lim (Composer) | 5 | 33522 11377 66715 |