Airi Suzuki (violinist)
Airi Suzuki (Japanese铃木 爱 理, Suzuki Airi, * 1989 in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese violinist.
Career
Suzuki began playing the violin at the age of four. Her debut recital she played in the spring of 2005 at the age of 15 years at the Suntory Hall in Yokosuka with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and was titled as talented Nachwuchsviolinistin. She was since she was 10 years old student of Koichiro Harada. Suzuki attended from 2005, the Toho Gakuen College of Music in Chōfu an honor student, where she studied with Koichiro Harada. She continued her studies with Krzysztof Węgrzyn at the Academy of Music, Drama and Media Hanover. The 13th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan, it reached 2006 at the age of 17 years in second place, which they received international attention. When Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, the world's most highly endowed Violin Competition, she reached in 2012 to fifth place. They also played some concerts with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and the NDR Filharmonia Poznanka Radio Philharmonic. This was followed in 2012 an invitation to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Suzuki plays since early 2011 on a valuable violin by Matteo Goffriller of Venice, which was provided to her by the "Yellow Angel " Foundation in Tokyo on loan for two years available. Others reportedly is a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1748.