Szuyu Su, piano

Born in Tainan City, Taiwan, Szuyu began to learn the piano at the age of four. She has studied with Chao-Yin Chen, Grace Chung, Meng-Chieh Liu and Gary Graffman. She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and is now studying at the Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Hung-Kuan Chen.

Szuyu recently won the Second Prize at Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition held in Juilliard. She is the winner of the 2022 CHIMEI Arts Award in the piano category. In 2012, Szuyu took Third Prize at Steinway Piano Competition and made her debut with orchestra at the winners’ concert. In the same year, she also won First Prizes in 3 categories at American Protégé and performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2015, she was awarded Semi-Final Prize at Leeds International Piano competition, where she was invited by a jury member to participate in the Oxford Piano Festival and perform with Oxford Philharmonic orchestra at the Sheldonian Theatre. In 2019, she won Second Prize and best mazurka performance at Beijing Chopin Piano competition.

She participated in the 2021 Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition and advanced to the second stage. Since then, she has been invited to play with orchestras and give recitals in major venues in Taiwan.