Akiko Suwanai

Akiko Suwanai (諏訪内晶子, Suwanai Akiko, born February 7, 1972) is a Japanese classical violinist.

At the age of 18, she became the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she was awarded second prize in the Paganini Competition and Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1989 and is a laureate of the Music Competition of Japan.

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.[1]

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

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