KarenSu

Karen Su is an American violinist originally from Los Angeles. Born into a musical family, her journey began under the guidance of her father and flourished with Igor and Vesna Gruppman at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where she started her degree at just fifteen and graduated summa cum laude. Her artistic development reached new heights as artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, mentored by the legendary Augustin Dumay.

She is a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, a special prize winner at the Wieniawski International Violin Competition, and a top prize winner at the Lipizer and Princess Astrid competitions. As a soloist she has performed with orchestras including the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, in halls from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels to the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Rudolfinum in Prague and Auckland Town Hall.

A passionate chamber musician, she has collaborated with Augustin Dumay, Gary Hoffman, Jian Wang, Lorenzo Gatto, Miguel da Silva and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, and forms a violin-piano duo with Dutch pianist Ruben Plazier, with whom she organises the concert series Experience Klassiek. Since 2025 she has been professor of violin at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons, mentoring bachelor and master students.