Akiko suwanai paganini biography

A Japanese classical violinist.
Akiko Suwanai has won numerous prizes and awards such as the International Paganini Competition in Italy, the International Japan Competition and the Queen.
Violinist AKIKO SUWANAI has established an international career as soloist and recitalist performing in the major cities of Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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Praised by The Times for her “noble playing, with its rhythmic life, taut and rigorous,” Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai was the youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. Since then she has enjoyed a flourishing international career and appears regularly with celebrated maestros and foremost orchestras across the globe.

This season Akiko Suwanai debuts at Opéra National de Paris, performing the choreographed version of Salonen’s violin concerto. On this occasion Opéra Bastille sees a series of 13 ballet performances staged by Saburo Teshigawara and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Other 2017/18 highlights include season opening with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla and John Axelrod, as well

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Akiko Suwanai

Winner of the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition and the youngest first-prize recipient in the history of the competition, violinist AKIKO SUWANAI has established an international career as soloist and recitalist performing in the major cities of Asia, Europe and the Americas.

During the 1999/2000 season, Suwanai appears with the Orchestre National de France under Myung-Whun Chung, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniele Gatti, and the Orchestre de Lyon under Emmanuel Krivine. She also collaborates with Krivine in a tour of Europe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Suwanai will make her debut this season at the Lucerne Music Festival as well as at the Berlin Festival Weeks. She will also tour Japan performing the Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2 under the baton of the composer. In North America, Suwanai will appear with, among others, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra. In the Fall of 1999, Philips released Suwanai’s third recording, a collection of slavonic pieces for violin and piano performed wit

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Akiko Suwanai

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Praised by The Times for her “noble playing, with its rhythmic life, taut and rigorous,” Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai was the youngest ever 1st prize winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. Since then she has enjoyed a flourishing international career and appears regularly with celebrated maestros and orchestras.

In recent years, Akiko Suwanai performed with Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi, Staatskapelle Dresden and Peter Eötvös, Bamberger Symphoniker and Herbert Blomstedt, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and François-Xavier Roth, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Vladimir Jurowski, Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Klaus Mäkelä, Philharmonia Orchestra with Tugan Sokhiev, Israel Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda, Rotterdam Philhamonic with Lahav Shani, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden among others.

Previously, she worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic,