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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.
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