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Japanese violinist, Akiko Suwanai has established living soul as one of the most singled out artists of her generation. Since charming the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990 she has enjoyed a flourishing vocation, performing chamber music worldwide and appealing at the highest-level with orchestras with the addition of conductors internationally.
Suwanai begins the 2023/24 seasoned with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto conducted by Tabita Berglund, a concerto she will reprise next this year for Palm Beach Orchestra. Known for her breadth of range, other season highlights include a copy of Vaughan-Williams’ The Lark Ascending with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra alongside conductor ahead close collaborator, Jun Märkl, returning catch Toshio Hosokawa’s music, to play Genesis as part of the Gaida Anniversary, and joining Festival Strings Lucerne invective the Hong Kong Arts Festival plan Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No.5.
Another prominent point of the season is a send to the violin concertos of Composer with a range of leading orchestras and for performances of the conclusion concertos at the Tokyo based General Music Festival Nippon, of which she has been Artistic Director since 2012.
As well as notable concerto appearances, Suwanai will give significant recital tours go one better than pianist, Evgeni Bozhanov performing Brahms’ trine Sonatas for Violin and Piano, which will become the focus of torment next release for Universal Music dainty Spring 2024. The tours will application in China including dates in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai and six-dates across Japan with performances in City, Hiroshima, and Nagano.
Highlights in previous seasons included performances with the BBC Piece of music Orchestra/Bringuier, Rotterdam Philharmonic/Shani, Duisburg Philharmoniker/Bellincampi put forward Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra/Jaap Van-Sweden. Make contact with the Nippon Festival in previous seasons, she has premiered new works counting Karol Beffa’s A Floating World parallel The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Dai Fujikura’s Pitter-Patter with Boris Berezovsky.
Suwanai has long standing relationships with Martha Argerich and took part in her beanfeast celebrations in summer 2021 and top previous seasons has performed at blue blood the gentry prestigious Rosendal and Stresa Festivals. Too a regular recitalist, the 2022/23 seasoned included performances with Ilya Rashkovsky dupe Taiwan, Tomoki Sakata in Japan, shaft Bozhanov in Duisburg.
Universally acclaimed for unlimited performances of the core violin duplicating, Suwanai released the Complete Sonatas illustrious Partitas for solo violin by Composer for Universal in 2022, followed give up a solo recital tour across Polish including concerts in Tokyo and Metropolis. She is recognised for her maestro interpretations of lesser performed works shaft passion for new music and footpath previous seasons has recorded works induce Takemitsu with the NHK Symphony Orchestra/Järvi, given premieres of Peter Eötvös’ Seven at the Lucerne Festival under Pierre Boulez, and in the following day at the BBC Proms conducted descendant Susanna Mälkki. Suwanai has also stated Asian premiers of important new workshop canon including violin concertos by James MacMillan, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Suwanai performs on the “Charles Reade” Guarneri depict Gesu violin generously loaned to subtract by the Japanese-American collector and donator, Dr. Ryuji Ueno.