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🎹 sharon su
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Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her

Website: sharonsu.com

Biweekly newsletter: https://buttondown.com/doodlyroses

One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social
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One last music drop for 2025! Take a break from holiday music and enjoy this lovely nocturne by Maria Szymanowska. On all major streaming platforms and downloadable from iTunes.

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Sharon Su - Maria Szymanowska: Nocturne in B Flat Major - Single
Listen to Maria Szymanowska: Nocturne in B Flat Major - Single by Sharon Su.
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First newsletter of 2026 is out—I somehow started with horses and ended on why Schubert used a six flat key signature in my favorite impromptu. Don't ask me how I got from point A to point B, it just happened like that

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On Horses and Schubert
Things that have broken my brain, and the revelations beyond
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January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
“It must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can”

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One of the Greats by Florence + the Machine on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 6:32
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January 30, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I only just remembered that it’s only been a year since the fires in LA, and I’m weirdly glad I recorded so many of my feelings about it in the moment because I reread this and realized so much of this, vivid as it was at the time, has since been repressed in my mind

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On fire
Disasters, salad, and the time I was rude to a piano salesman
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January 29, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Got a phishing email from a Van Cliburn finalist, that’s a new one
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Not to be weird about chords on main but I love how some chord changes have the energy of letting a strap slip over a shoulder and others feel like a dress hitting the floor. It’s like whew, Schubert, you want me to do this in front of people?? ok you freak I’ll do it
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Can someone just tell me if Upscroll will fill the hole in my heart that is addicted to living my life out loud on Instagram Stories but stopped last year because Meta sucks
January 28, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Saw this on Instagram: Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis is going to be free and volunteer-staffed for the duration of the occupation of the city, is accepting donations to cover costs via @moderntimescafe on Venmo
January 27, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I knew I would get something out of reading Les Misérables, but I was not prepared for how helpful and soothing it would be for understanding and processing the current moment
January 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
They should make mini packets of instant noodles for when you just want a lil snack
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Every time I use maple syrup as sweetener in a hot beverage I feel like I’m being possessed by the spirit of @violanorth.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I didn’t think I’ve gotten better at writing but I’m reading over the edited draft of something I wrote a few years ago that’s finally being published and I am horrified at how juvenile my writing is
January 22, 2026 at 6:59 PM
We begin Book 5 with the Valjean and Fantine timelines finally converging, and I realize there are geographic reasons for why Fantine doesn’t check on Cosette

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January 21, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I started Book 4 with the kind of investigative zeal that people usually apply to solving murders in order to figure out how Hugo’s timeline tracks

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January 21, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I know this is not the point of playing the piano but every time I see performance video of myself I’m just so pleased at my ability to manage nuances on three pedals in stiletto heels, just a classic example of how I insist on playing everything in hard mode just to prove that I can
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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all of Classical Music Bluesky yesterday and today:
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Will 2026 finally be the year I understand that laundry is a thing that needs to happen every week and not something you do once and are done with for the rest of your life
January 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Rule #1 of Classical Twitter/Bluesky: *everything* happens to the duck
January 20, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Let me get this straight, I don’t check social media for one day and I come back to find that @musicologyduck.bsky.social is the main character of Bluesky in the most Duck way imaginable??
January 20, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Ok so the Busoni piano concerto is indeed the most piano concerto I have ever experienced in a piano concerto
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 AM
TIL that some of the Los Angeles Olympics events are going to be happening in…Oklahoma
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
What are you planning to do to me, LA Phil
January 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
We’re onto Book 3 now! In Chapter 1, Hugo’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire, 1817 Edition” proves that everything has always happened so much

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January 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Víctor Hugo 1000%
Do you have a historical figure you most wish got to be a poster? I feel like you must have a better answer than mine, which is Churchill. The guy started autobiography when he was 19 I think. And just never stopped. True poster.
January 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Exciting news in Florence Price Land: Samantha Ege’s edition of Price’s 4 Fantasies is now available for pre-order, thus saving all future pianists from the nightmare hell that I went through

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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM