Kian Hsu is a Hong Kong-born percussionist, currently based in Munich. Having recently graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with First Class honours, he is now pursuing his masters at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Alexej Gerassimez. During his four years at the RCM, he was supported with a full scholarship by the Croucher Hong Kong Charitable Trust.

Kian is an active orchestral musician. He was on the percussion fellowships of the Philharmonia Orchestra and the English National Opera in the 2024-25 season. He has also played with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta as a guest musician. He is also passionate in contemporary percussion chamber music. He often collaborates with groups like Toolbox Percussion and his duo Gik1 Hei3. He has recently performed with Japanese sound artist mamoru in his project NEVER BE NO VOICE, and has won the first prize in the Percussion Ensemble (Open Class) category in IPEA International Percussion Competition 2024 with his duo Gik1 Hei3.

He is also the Champion of the Solo Marimba Youth Group in IPEA Elite Performance 2025, the recipient of the Zildjian Award (2025) from the Royal College of Music and the recipient of the Buffalo Percussion Award in Marimbafest 2019. Besides classical music, Kian is keen on discovering ethnic percussion. He visited Tokyo in 2017 and has been studying taiko drumming ever since. He has performed with drumming groups in Macau and Hong Kong and has recently played in pop concerts as a Chinese and ethnic percussionist. He has also toured and given concerts in the Netherlands, Australia, Norway, Sweden and Malaysia. "