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.

"10 Great Composers" - Violin Works - 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000000Z

"A Tempo" - Classical for Summer - 2025-07-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Prokofiev for Everyone - 2025-01-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Bravo! - Great Classical Recordings: Bach - 2025-01-25T00:00:00.000000Z

'Golberg Variations' and Other Works - 2025-01-18T00:00:00.000000Z

10 Great Composers: Violin Works - 2024-11-24T00:00:00.000000Z

星座歌單——巨蟹座 - 2024-10-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Rendez-vous With Martha Argerich, Vol. 3 - 2024-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Brahms: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin - 2024-06-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Charles Dutoit - Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals and other works - 2022-12-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Female Violinists - 2022-04-16T00:00:00.000000Z

J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - 2022-01-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Romantic Period - The Violin - 2021-11-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Tchaikovsky: The Master of Orchestra - 2020-09-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Essential Classics From ... PolyGram 50th Anniversary - 2020-08-21T00:00:00.000000Z

20世紀傑作選②武満徹:管弦楽曲集 - 2020-02-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich - 2019-09-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Prokofiev with Martha Argerich - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Classical Violin 100 - 2018-10-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Tchaikovsky - Masterwork - 2017-01-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Eötvös: Concertos - 2015-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z

101 Violin - 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Classics For Japan - Music for Healing - 2011-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Violin Encores - 2011-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Poème - 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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