The laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition will establish her own class next year

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Violinist Karen Su

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The Antwerp-based US violinist Karen Su has been appointed to the faculty at Conservatoire Royal de Mons in Belgium. Su is currently replacing Kremena Oksenkrug-Nikolova, who is on maternity leave, and joins the faculty which includes violinists Eliot Lawson, Wibert Aerts, and Daniel Rubenstein.

Additionally, she will establish her own class of bachelor’s and master’s students at the beginning of the 2025/26 academic year and is inviting prospective students to contact her via her website.

Su is a laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition, a special prize winner at the Wieniawski International Violin Competition, and a top prize winner at both the Lipizer and Princess Astrid International Competitions.

She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Belgium and abroad, such as Orchester Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Belgian National Orchestra, Boca del Río Philharmonic, Orchester Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, and the Polish Radio Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Su is part of a violin-piano duo with pianist Ruben Plazier, with whom she organises the Experience Klassiek concert series.

She plays on a 1747 Nicolo Gagliano violin, generously provided by an anonymous donor.

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