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BIOGRAPHY AKIKO SUWANAI VIOLIN The youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, Akiko Suwanai, studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Toshiya Eto, at Columbia University and the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and Cho-Liang Lin, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Uwe-Martin Haiberg. Highlights of the 2015/16 season included performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Tugan Sokhiev), The Philadelphia Orchestra (Pablo Heras-Casado), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Hannu Lintu) and Gürzenich-Orchester Köln (Francois-Xavier Roth). Additionally, she toured Japan with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Yuri Temirkanov), and in China with NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tan Dun). Later on she performed with the Bamberger Symphoniker (Herbert Blomstedt). She has worked with the London Symphony Orchestra (Valery Gergiev), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris (Paavo Järvi). Recent performances have included concerts with the BBC Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic (Vassily Petrenko), Danish National Symphony and Vancouver Symphony orchestras and she has toured with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Sir Antonio Pappano). Suwanai also took part in the Bergen International Festival, performing with Leif Ove Andsnes. Conductor collaborations include Sir Andrew Davis, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, David Robertson, Susanna Mälkki, Neeme Järvi, Sakari Oramo and Seiji Ozawa. Artistic Director of the International Music Festival NIPPON, which she launched in 2012, the 2014 edition saw her give the world premiere of Karol Beffa’s Violin Concerto with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Paavo Järvi), on previous editions she performed the Japanese premiere of Salonen’s Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer and the world premiere of Eric Tanguy’s In a Dream with pianist Akira Eguchi. She also performed the world premiere of Peter Eötvös' Violin Concerto Seven at the Lucerne Festival with the Festival Academy Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez, She premiered this work in Gothenburg, Budapest, Berlin, Tokyo, Toronto and at the BBC Proms conducted by Eötvös. She also performed the Japan premiere of James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2012. She also premiered in Madrid the new violin concerto “Poemario” by the Spanish composer Antón García Abril on November 2015. Suwanai’s extensive discography with Universal Music has garnered much critical acclaim and her most recent release is a recital disc with pianist Itamar Golan, entitled Emotion. Akiko Suwanai has won numerous prizes and awards including the International Paganini Competition in Italy and the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Belgium. She performs on the Stradivarius ‘Dolphin’ violin from 1714, previously owned by Jascha Heifetz, loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation. Calle Viento, 15, 2B Majadahonda. 28220 Madrid Tel: (+34) 91 634 02 05 [email protected] www.conciertosaugusto.com