Hang Su is a German composer of Chinese descent, a performer of contemporary music, and a music theatre maker. He completed his Master’s degree in music composition at the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig (with summa cum laude). He is a founding member of Contemporary Insights (2019–2023) and forma Leipzig (2010–2023). He was a Heinrich Böll Foundation scholarship recipient from 2010 to 2015.

His projects have been supported by Musikfonds e.V. (2018), Initiative Neue Musik (2019), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2022), Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (2022), Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis (2023), Fonds Darstellende Künste (2022 and 2023), and by Berlin districts such as Pankow (2021), Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2018), Steglitz-Zehlendorf (2023), and Mitte (2024). He was a resident fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg (2018), Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop (2019), and Lofft – Das Theater in Leipzig (2021). He has also received multiple grants from Musikfonds (2020, 2022, and 2023), Fonds Darstellende Künste (2023), the City of Leipzig (2021), and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (2017, 2020).

His works have been performed in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Austria by ensembles such as Ensemble Handwerk, Trio Sostenuto, MAM.manufaktor für aktuelle musik (Berlin), Ensemble Mocrep (Chicago), Ensemble SNIM (Vienna), and others. His pieces have been presented at Lofft – Das Theater in Leipzig (2019 and 2020), Berliner Festival aktueller Musiktheater (BAM!) (2019), Berliner Klangwerkstatt (2018), Wiener Musiktheatertage (2018), Darmstädter Ferienkurs (2016 and 2018), Ballhaus Ost Berlin (2019, 2023), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2018 and 2023), and Re:Publika (2024).

Since 2017, he has been working on performative projects, experimenting with the interplay between music and choreography, combining these into new forms of music and dance theatre. His particular interest lies in the lesser-known aspects of German history, which he reinterprets from the perspective of a queer migrant, commenting on them in relation to his own cultural background. Since 2023, Hang Su has been collaborating with Silvan Hagenbrock (urbanist, filmmaker, and online editor for the Goethe-Institut China) as a music and theatre collective within an urban context (Kollektiv Lingsanling, www.lingsanling.info). Since then, the focus on decolonial work has increasingly shaped his creative phase, and he has begun addressing the Asian diaspora through his initiative, the Lab of Asian Diaspora (www.lab-of-asian-diaspora.org).