He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then in Germany.
Since 1991, he has been a professor of film and media composition at the newly founded State Film Academy in the Stuttgart area.
Together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, Su won the Best Original Score Academy Award for the Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor in 1987; the soundtrack album won the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media award at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989.
[1] Su divides his time between Beijing, Lake Constance, and Lucca, Italy.
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