Susanna Yoko Henkel is a recipient of the prestigious „ECHO Klassik“ award for her live recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
This award, which has often been quoted as the „European Grammy“, has carried the violinist into the centre of high media interest, which has led to appearances in the most popular German TV-shows and introduced her to a large audience. Since many years she is appearing regularly with leading European orchestras. The German „Welt am Sonntag“ has elected her as one of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s heiresses, and the U.S. music magazine „Strings“ has honored her with a cover story. Born and raised in a German-Japanese family of professional musicians, Susanna Yoko Henkel started playing the violin already at age two, starting with her mother. She was mainly trained by the legendary violin pedagogue Ana Chumachenco in Munich. Already during her early studies she has won many prestigious prizes at international competitions. Besides her work as a soloist, Susanna Yoko Henkel is also a dedicated chamber musician and has been the artistic director of the Zagreb International Chamber Music Festival for 14 years. Susanna Yoko Henkel currently holds a professorship at the „Hochschule für Musik und Tanz“ in Cologne and at the Music Academy in Zagreb. Susanna Yoko Henkel plays on the  „Ex Leslie Tate“ Stradivarius from 1710, generously loaned by a private proprietor.