Szuyu Su, Pianist

Szuyu Su is a pianist currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under Jon Kimura Parker. In 2025, she won the Shepherd School Concerto Competition with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and will perform it with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in Spring 2026. She also received the Silver Medal and the Audience Choice Award at the Young Texas Artists Competition.

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Szuyu attended the 2023 Music Academy of the West as a fellowship recipient, winning the Solo Piano Competition and premiering two Etudes by Samuel Adams. In 2024, she returned as a guest artist to perform a solo recital, including the premiere of in place, at hand by Anthony Cheung. 

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She is a recipient of the CHIMEI Arts Award, Second Prize winner at the 2022 Mieczysław Münz Piano Competition, and the 2019 Beijing Chopin Piano Competition, where she also won Best Mazurka Performance. Szuyu advanced to the second stage of the 2021 Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition and has since performed with orchestras and given recitals at various venues.

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Originally from Tainan, Taiwan, Szuyu began playing the piano at age 4. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Master’s degree from the Juilliard School.

 

Experienced in classroom, online, and one-on-one teaching, Szuyu offers lessons both online and in person in Houston.