Winnie Su was born in 1999 in Sydney to a non-musical and hard working family. She found her love for the piano at the age of 7 and entered the eisteddfod scene soon after. Inspired by the kind, yet firm nature of her own teacher Margaret Hair, she grew to develop a keen interest in pedagogy. She believes that performance and pedagogy is an act of compassion to pay forward to classical music lovers of all ages.

 

Winnie would like to extend her deepest gratitudes to the Leverhulme Arts Scholarships and the Waverley Fund for allowing her to realize her dream of pursuing her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. She currently studies piano performance under the guidance of Professor Graham Scott. Her interest in historically informed performance and period instruments has also led her to study the harpsichord with Professor Roger Hamilton.

 

Winnie was awarded her Licentiate Diploma at the age of 14 under the guidance of Margaret Hair, and later studied with Prof. Clemens Leske at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her constant pursuit for knowledge also drives her to continuously seek world class pedagogues from overseas, and she has participated in short-term exchanges and numerous international masterclasses with world-renowned pedagogues including Prof. Anton Nel, Prof. John Perry and Prof. Robert McDonald.

 

Making her debut at the age of 13, she performed Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto in the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Sydney Youth Orchestras, followed by a performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto the following year. She also made several guest appearances on piano and celeste as part of ensembles of The Arts Unit. Winnie was the winner of St George Eisteddfod’s Junior Piano Championship 2010 and Intermediate Piano Championship 2011 consecutively. Her love for Chopin and Ravel was rewarded with numerous Chopin Piano Awards, busts, and 20th Century prizes in Wollongong and Sydney Eisteddfods. She was Commended in the RNCM Mark Ray Recital Prize and Beethoven Prize. 

 

She loves performing works of Chopin and Bach for their strong poetic nature and also hopes to one day record the complete piano works of Ravel. Winnie also enjoys playing the oboe and Chinese dizi, and when she is not making music, is an avian rescuer with WIRES Australia Wildlife Organisation.

 

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