The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Director and Chief Concertmaster of the Orchestra, Mr. The LVSO Concert Hall will host a concert by Japanese violin star Akiko Suwanai, who has established herself as one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. In 1990 she won the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition and became the youngest ever winner of the competition - at the time she was just 18. In a career spanning more than three decades, A. Suwanai has performed with top symphony orchestras and conductors around the world and has performed chamber music. The Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and Tokyo NHK are just a few of the major symphony orchestras with which the violinist has performed. Internationally acclaimed as a performer of the core violin repertoire, Suwanai has published the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2024) and the complete violin sonatas and partitas of J.S. Bach (2022) with Universal Music. In 2012, Suwanai co-founded the Nippon International Music Festival in Tokyo and became its artistic director. Ms Suwanai plays a Charles Reade Guarneri del Gesu violin from the collection of Japanese collector and philanthropist Dr Ryuji Ueno. In Vilnius, Suwanai will perform the First Violin Concerto by German Romantic composer Max Bruch (1838-1920). With its soaring melodies, lush and passionate orchestration, and devilishly difficult virtuosic violin passages, Bruch's First Concerto has undoubtedly become one of the world's most famous violin repertoire works. In the concerto, A. Suwanai will also play another masterpiece of Romanticism - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor for violin and orchestra by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

 

In the second part of the concert, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gintaras Rinkevičius, will play the Third Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). It is one of van Beethoven's most famous works, a groundbreaking and revolutionary sign of the transition from the Classical to the Romantic era.