Saule Tatubaeva was born in Almaty (Kazakhstan) and received her music lessons at the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Tamara Syrtseva. In 1981 she won first prize at the international competition "Contemporary Compositions" in Moscow, and a year later she was accepted as a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Samvel Alumyan, where she later graduated with honours. In 1988 she won first prize at the international Zhiger Competition in Almaty and passed the soloist exam with honours at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Lev Vlasenko. In 1992 she was awarded a doctorate for her dissertation "The problems of interpreting piano works by Kazakhstani and Kyrgyz composers".
Saule Tatubaeva has performed as a soloist with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Kazakhstan State Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestras of Belem and Goyania in Brazil, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She has travelled to France, Bulgaria, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Norway, India, Japan, China, Yemen, the USA, Brazil and Iran. She has given masterclasses in Brazil, the USA, Canada, India, Russia, Yemen, Norway and China.
As a DAAD scholarship holder in 1994, she expanded her musical skills at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Professor Fany Solter. Since October 1994, she has held a teaching position for piano and piano chamber music at the Karlsruhe University of Music, and from 1997 to 1999 also a teaching position for piano chamber music at the Trossingen State University of Music. She has been a professor since 2003 and now substitutes for Roberto Domingos as a lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Many of her students are now themselves employed as teachers in various positions in Karlsruhe and at other universities in Germany and abroad.
As artistic director of the European Chamber Music Competition Karlsruhe, she has contributed to the international reputation of the university seven times. The competition for school musicians, which she co-founded with Prof. Dr Ulrich Michels, has now been held seventeen times and has also served as a model for other music academies. Since 2002, Saule Tatubaeva has been artistic director of the concert series "Junge Talente stellen sich vor", which takes place at KIT Karlsruhe. She also heads the "Förderverein für Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft e. V." (Association for the Promotion of Art, Media and Science), which is committed to supporting young artists and scientists.