At 20 years old, virtuoso violinist Tamaki Kawakubo is already a veteran of the concert stage. She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, and has established herself as a formidable artist possessing a masterful technique.

Ms. Kawakubo’s 2000-2001 season in the United States included appearances with the Pacific, Seattle and Indianapolis Symphonies and the Fresno Philharmonic, as well as a recital at the Cummer Gallery of Art in Jacksonville, Florida. Summer 2000 was highlighted by Ms. Kawakubo’s chamber music collaboration with Christoph Eschenbach at Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival. In the summer of 1999, she performed with Maestro Eschenbach at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival where she had previously appeared in recital on the festival’s prestigious Rising Stars series. In recent summers she has appeared at the Blossom Music Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Jahja Ling; at New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and as soloist with the Mostly Mozart Festival on a tour of Japan, with Gerard Schwarz conducting.

Winner of a 1997 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Kawakubo began her violin studies at the age of 5 in Los Angeles. She went on to study with Robert Lipsett at the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and most recently with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School. In addition to her active performance schedule, she studies with Zakhar Bron at the Music Hochschule in Koln, Germany.