Following this she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School of performing arts.
In 1997, she received an Avery Fisher Career Grant[1] and moved to Zürich to study with Zakhar Bron.
Tamaki has also won first prize at the 2001 Pablo de Sarasate International Violin Competition.
[2] Previously, Kawakubo played the La Cathedrale violin, a Stradivarius on loan from the Mandell Collection.
Tamaki Kawakubo performed the Chaconne from John Corigliano's soundtrack to the film The Red Violin with the New York ensemble Eos Orchestra.