The Texas Medical Center Orchestra’s 2024–25 season opened with “Cathedrals of Sound,” a concert featuring Szuyu Su, Young Texas Artists’ 2025 Silver Medalist in Piano and Audience Choice Award winner. (See video below).
The concert took place Sept. 27, at South Main Baptist Church in Houston.
Su performed Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, a piece known for its jazz influences and rhythmic complexity, as the featured soloist.
The award-winning pianist is 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 is slated to perform it with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra in Spring 2026.
Su attended the 2023 Music Academy of the West as a fellowship recipient, where she won the Solo Piano Competition and premiered two Etudes by Samuel Adams. In 2024, she returned as a guest artist to perform a solo recital, which included the premiere of “in place, at hand” by Anthony Cheung.
Her accolades also include the CHIMEI Arts Award, Second Prize at the 2022 Mieczysław Münz Piano Competition, and recognition at the 2019 Beijing Chopin Piano Competition, where she also received the Best Mazurka Performance award. She advanced to the second stage of the 2021 Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition and has since performed with orchestras and given recitals at venues around the world.
Originally from Tainan, Taiwan, Su began playing 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.
Learn more about Texas Medical Center Orchestra and its 2025-26 season.