Akiko Suwanai facts for kids

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 in 1988 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.

Until 2019 she played the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. After it was returned she received the "Charles Reade" Guarneri del Gesù on loan from Japanese collector Ryuji Ueno.

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

See also

In Spanish: Akiko Suwanai para niños