Akiko Suwanai

is a Japanese classical violinist.

She was the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she won second place in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1989 and is a laureate in the International Japan Competition.

She has studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Toshiya Eto, while at Columbia University at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and Cho-Liang Lin, and at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Uwe-Martin Haiberg.

She currently plays on the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, which is a loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Discography

*"Bruch: Concerto No. 1 - Scottish Fantasy"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
*:November 11, 1997: Philips Classics Records
*"Akiko Suwanai: Souvenir"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin; Phillip Moll, piano
*:June 8, 1998: Philips Classics Records
*"Dvořák: Violin Concerto, etc."
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra
*:October 9, 2001: Decca Music Group
*"Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor / Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Vladimir Ashkenazy, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
*:December 20, 2001: Decca Music Group
*"Brahms, Dvořák, Janáček"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:May 8, 2002: Philips Classics Records
*"Sibelius & Walton Violin Concertos"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Sakari Oramo, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
*:2003: Decca Music Group
*"Poème"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Charles Dutoit, Philharmonia Orchestra of London
*:November 9, 2004: Decca Music Group
*"Bach: Violin Concertos"
*:Akiko Suwanai, violin
*:Chamber Orchestra of Europe
*:May 2, 2006: Decca Music Group

External links

* [http://www.universal-music.co.jp/classics/artist/akiko-suwanai/index.html Official page]

References

[http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/suwanai/biog.html Decca Music Group's Biography for Akiko Suwanai] [http://www.universal-music.co.jp/classics/artist/akiko-suwanai/index.html Official page]