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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Akiko Suwanai
- Akiko Suwanai (??? ??, 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 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.She currently plays the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, which is on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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