Planet M Records is a Seattle-based, independent, artist-led record label, specializing in Classical music with an emphasis on new music, co-founded by musicians Michael Jinsoo Lim and Melia Watras.
 

Michael Jinsoo Lim, Director and Co-Founder
Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim has been praised by Gramophone for playing with “delicious abandon,” and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a “conspicuously accomplished champion of contemporary music.” Concertmaster and solo violinist for the internationally acclaimed Pacific Northwest Ballet, Lim is featured as soloist with the company in concertos by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bach and others, and has toured with PNB to Paris and New York City. For twenty years, Lim was a member and co-founder of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet, with whom he appeared on over a dozen albums. His discography can be found on Naxos, Planet M, Sono Luminus, DreamWorks, Albany, Bridge, CRI, Bayer Records, RIAX and New Focus. In addition to his work as a performer, Lim serves on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.

Melia Watras, Co-Founder
Melia Watras has been hailed by Gramophone as “an artist of commanding and poetic personality” and by The Strad as “staggeringly virtuosic.” As a violist, composer and collaborative artist, she has sustained a distinguished career as a creator and facilitator of new music and art. Watras has released 9 albums, while performing on 13 others as violist of the Corigliano Quartet. As a composer, her music has been heard on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and can be found on the albums Play/Write, String Masks, Firefly Songs, Schumann Resonances and 26. Watras’s adaptation of John Corigliano’s Fancy on a Bach Air for viola is published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and can be heard on her Viola Solo album. She is currently Professor of Viola at the University of Washington School of Music, where she holds the Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professorship and was awarded the Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professorship, the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Fellowship, the Kreielsheimer and Jones Grant for Research Excellence in the Arts, and the Royalty Research Fund.