Hengyue (Stella) Su

Hengyue (Stella) Su is an accomplished concert pianist, having performed in Ukraine, Russia, China, Italy, and the United States. From the tender age of 4 ½ years old when she began to play the piano, Stella knew that music was her life. By six years old, she enjoyed playing and listening to Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Shuman, and Bach. Before she was 15 years old, she earned the highest certification (Level 9) at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, and by age 18, she won first prize in the China International Competition, which included competitors from China and Korea. She was propelled to first place in that competition with her performances of Chopin and Liszt pieces.

Stella continued her studies after high school in Ukraine, attending Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, under professors Yozef Ormeny, Svetlana Borisova and Alexey Sokolov; she earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and a master’s degree in piano performance. She also earned a master’s degree in music education from the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, home of one of her favorite artists, Vladimir Horowitz. Stella earned an additional master’s degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and she is finishing her second year of a DMA Piano Performance program at the University of Kentucky.

Stella’s more recent performance accolades include: 

• First Prize, 2023 Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition

• First Place, American Protégé International Concerto Competition 2023

• First Place, American Protégé International Piano & Strings Competition 2023

• 1st Place, Music International Grand Prix Semifinals 2023

• Second Prize, 3rd Great Piano Masters International Competition

• Second Place, 2023 Viva-Music All World International Competition Of Classical Music

• The 2023 Jean Marie McConnell Chrisman Memorial Piano Scholarship, 

• Performance with the Todi International Music Masters Festival Orchestra in Todi, Italy (2017)

• Performance of the Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 with the Khmelnytsky Philharmonic Chamber in Kiev, Ukraine (2019)

Stella’s experiences of working with world-class piano professors, conductors, and gifted classmates also served to stimulate her vision for her professional and creative aspirations. She spent her summer sessions performing in China. During one of her summers, Stella co-produced an international piano festival and competition, “The Magic of Song,” where conservatory students and independent artists were invited to Moscow for the event. Stella was instrumental in attracting eight companies and three music conservatories as event sponsors. After participating in producing this event, Stella realized that she wanted to use music to change the world, to change people’s lives.

Now, she has a vision for contributing to the Passions of Our Tortured Planet project. Her message is entitled “Preserving Our Planet Through the Eyes of Classical Music.” It is an homage to classical composers and their reflections on nature and their natural surroundings as themes and inspirations for their compositions. Many classical music composers were very aware of nature and the environment. Their compositions and masterpieces reflected expressions of nature in their melodies and the passions of solo and orchestral performances. Stella embraces the vision of classical composers who made observations about the natural environment, its sounds, its creatures, and its promotion of the Life that abounds on our planet.