Tamasin Cline was born in Devon in 1978, winning a music scholarship to study the violin and piano at St Antony's Leweston School in Dorset in 1989. At the age of 16, Tamasin took up the viola and gained a place to study with Richard Crabtree at Trinity College of Music in London. Whilst at Trinity, she gained a Bmus degree and a Postgraduate diploma and in 1999, was awarded the Band/Kurtz award for viola playing at Trinity.
In 2001, Tamasin won the Vera Kantrovich Prize for solo string playing and the Sir John Barbirolli Prize for string quartet. She has twice been a semi-finalist in the TCM Association Soloists Competition. Tamasin now works as a freelance musician throughout London and abroad, and has recently played with such orchestras as the Philharmonia, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway.
As a soloist, she has played in venues in London and across the country and recently gave a performance of the 'Concertino' for viola and strings by Adrian Williams. Tamasin currently studies with violist Lars Anders Tomter in Oslo.