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| AKIKO SUWANAI |
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AKIKO SUWANAI, Violin |
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| Photo © Universal Music Photo; Shintaro Shiratori |
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Youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, violinist
Akiko Suwanai has established a prolific and prestigious international
career as soloist and recitalist. She has collaborated with renowned conductors
including Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Mikhail Pletnev, Semyon
Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Eliahu Inbal, André Previn, Mstislav
Rostropovich, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Evgeny Svetlanov and Seiji Ozawa.
Miss Suwanai gave the Asian premiere of Penderecki's second Violin Concerto
under the composer's baton, subsequently performing the work in Europe,
including - at his invitation - Penderecki's 70th birthday celebrations
at the Teatro Colon.
Akiko Suwanai is renowned for her live performances fusing stunning virtuosity with engaging warmth. She is a frequent visitor to North America where she has given acclaimed performances from coast to coast, including with the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington and the Minnesota and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras.
Recent concerto appearances include with the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, of the Berg Violin Concerto at the Lucerne Easter Festival wit h the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Pierre Boulez and a European tour with Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of the 2005/6 season include a performance of the Berg concerto under Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and of the same concerto with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda, as well as tours of Switzerland with Orchestre national de Belgique/Mikko Franck and of Japan with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie. She will also be working with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies, Malaysian Philharmonic, Finnish Radio and returning to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony and Frankfurt Radio.
A regular guest performer at festivals around the world, 2005 sees Miss
Suwanai at Schleswig Holstein, Verbier, La Folle Journée de Nantes
and Macau Festivals. She has recently performed at the Evian Festival at
the invitation of Rostropovitch, as well as the Ravinia, Lockenhaus, Marlboro,
Lucerne, Rheingau and Berlin Festivals.
Akiko Suwanai has an exclusive recording contract with Universal and her seven releases to date have garnered much critical acclaim. Releases include Bruch with the Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner, the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos with the Czech Philharmonic and Ashkenazy, Takemitsu's Far Calls, Coming Far with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent recording of French repertoire with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Dutoit was released in 2004.
The recipient of numerous awards, Akiko Suwanai has won prizes at the International Paganini Competition, Italy, the International Japan Competition and the Queen Elisabeth International Competition, Belgium, at which she was the youngest entrant. She studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Toshiya Eto and subsequently at the Columbia University and the Julliard School of Music with Dorothy Delay and Cho-Liang Lin and also at the Hochschule de Künste in Berlin with Uwe-Martin Haiberg.
Akiko Suwanai performs on the Antonio Stradivarius 1714 Violin “Dolphin,” previously owned by Jascha Heifetz, on loan from Nippon Music Foundation.
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