When 18-year-old violinist Akiko Suwanai became the youngest winner in history of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990, reviewers marveled at how well she played for her age. Now they just marvel at ...

Having the use of a musical instrument that’s worth more than a Point Grey fixer-upper carries with it certain responsibilities. For instance, if your Stradivarius needs a tune-up, you can’t just take ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) will open its new season Thursday (Sept. 19) with the youngest winner of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition, Japan’s ...

Music Director Brett Mitchell launches his tenure with the massive orchestral force of Mahler’s monumental “Titan” Symphony, topping off a grandiose performance by International Tchaikovsky ...

Akiko Suwanai’s adventurous spirit drives her globe-trotting career. Raised in Tokyo, she captured a major violin prize in Moscow at age 18, then moved to New York to study music and politics. In May, ...

Violin virtuoso Akiko Suwanai makes her Palm Beach Symphony debut in a concert that will also feature the world premiere of Sinfonietta, composed by Music Director Gerard Schwarz, as he leads the ...

The Sheffield International Concert Season continues this November with a standout performance from The Hallé, returning to Sheffield City Hall under the baton of its dynamic Principal Conductor, ...

MAESTRO Lorin Maazel may be 81, but that doesn’t stop him embracing the huge challenges of Mahler’s mighty symphonies. MAESTRO Lorin Maazel may be 81, but that doesn’t stop him embracing the huge ...

Suwanai, 39, won global acclaim when she became the youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990 The popular violinist was found by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau to ...

Stravinsky once sneered that the ever-modish Vivaldi wrote the same concerto five hundred times. Clearly, the Russian modernist’s concept of originality was worlds away from that of the Italian ...