Akiko Suwanai

Akiko Suwanai (諏訪内 晶子, Suwanai Akiko) (born February 7, 1972) 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 of the International Japan Competition.

She has studied with Toshiya Eto at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, with Dorothy DeLay and Cho-Liang Lin at the Juilliard School of Music while at Columbia University, and with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Universität der Künste Berlin. She currently plays the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, which is on 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

References

Decca Music Group's Biography for Akiko Suwanai
[1] Akiko Suwanai Official website (Japanese)

External links

• Akiko Suwanai Official website (Japanese)