Akiko Suwanai opened the 2007/08 season with the world premiere of Peter Eötvös's new composition Seven at the Lucerne Festival under the baton of Pierre Boulez. She gives additional performances with Peter Eötvös himself conducting in Gothenburg, Budapest, Berlin, Tokyo and at the 2008 BBC Proms. Other future highlights include concerts with Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Barcelona Symphony and Orchestre National de Lyon (with whom she will appear at the 2009 BBC Proms). In December 2008 she will also tour Japan with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Akiko Suwanai has had an exclusive recording contract with Philips Classics since 1996 and her seven releases to date have garnered much critical acclaim. Akiko’s next release for the label will be a CD of Beethoven Sonatas with Nicholas Angelich in 2009.
Akiko Suwanai performs on the Antonio Stradivarius 1714 violin 'Dolphin', on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
Biography
