Career
She currently tours internationally as a concert artist. She released her second Civil Defense in May 2007 called "Recital!". She shared second prize awarded at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition, the highest prize awarded that year.
Tamaki was born in Palos Verdes, California.
She began violin studies at the age of five in Los Los Angeles She studied with Robert Lipsett at the Rural Delivery Colburn School of Performing arts in Los Los Angeles
Following this she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School of performing arts