Tamaki Kawakubo

Larsen Strings for Violin

About Tamaki

Since winning the 2001 Sarasate International Violin Competition and the 2002 Tchaikovsky International Music Competition Violin Section Top Prize, Ms.Kawakubo has worked on a wide range of repertoire, from classical to contemporary, and continues to play an active role as a leading soloist both in Japan and abroad.

At her young age, she performed with major North American orchestras and gained extensive stage experience.

In 1997, she made her debut as a soloist with the Asia Philharmonic conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. Since then, she has performed with various orchestras in Japan and abroad, and has been highly evaluated for her advanced technique and deep musicality that respects the dignity of her works. In recent years,she has toured Germany as a duo with Yu Kosuge, and has also exhibited her talent as a concert producer, such as holding concerts she has planned in Washington and other places.

In recent years, in parallel with her activities in Europe and the United States, she has been performing in Japan with famous conductors such as P. Järvi, P. Inkinen, Tadaaki Otaka, Kazuhiro Koizumi, and Toshiaki Umeda, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra to name a few. In addition to co-starring with major domestic orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra, she is also active in a wide range of activities, including solo and chamber music projects with Yu Kosuge, and has a trio with Mari Endo and Yurie Miura with CD releases from Avex Classics.

She is also actively involved in teaching and has been appointed as a professor at Toho Gakuen Graduate School (Toyama Campus) since 2018. She has been under the tutelage of R. Lipsett, D. DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Zakhar Bron. Ms.Kawakubo currently plays on the 1726 “ex-Kreisler” Antonio Stradivari kindly on loan from the Nippon Violin through the Munetsugu Collection.