Classical guitarist Tamara Caulkins specializes in performances of early nineteenth-century music. She has conducted research in France, Spain, and the U.S. to recover long-lost music for guitar, guitar and voice, and chamber music with guitar. Tamara has also studied eighteenth-century dance and has performed with Seattle Early Dance, Musica Antiqua, and the Musicking festival in Eugene, Oregon. She plays a 1830s guitar built in Mirecourt, France.