Akiko Suwanai
# Akiko Suwanai

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
