Szy­mon Emil Parul­s­ki is a renowned musi­cian with an impres­sive inter­na­tion­al back­ground. Cur­rent­ly a guest solo clar­inetist at La Monnaie/De Munt in Brus­sels.

Dur­ing his orches­tral career he has per­formed as a mem­ber of the Ver­bier Fes­ti­val Orches­tra under some of the great­est con­duc­tors such as Klaus Mäkelä, Sir Simon Rat­tle, Vasi­ly Petrenko, and Sir Anto­nio Pap­pano. 
He was also a mem­ber of the Gus­tav Mahler Jugen­dorch­ester, where he per­formed under esteemed Man­fred Honeck. Addi­tion­al­ly, he has col­lab­o­rat­ed with notable Pol­ish ensem­bles, includ­ing AUKSO Tychy the Inter­na­tion­al Lutosławs­ki Youth Orches­tra, and the Young Pol­ish Phil­har­mon­ic (Mło­da Pol­s­ka Fil­har­mo­nia) work­ing with acclaimed con­duc­tors Marek Moś, Marek Wro­niszews­ki, Rune Bergmann and Adam Klo­cek.

He has com­plet­ed his Mas­ter of Arts in Spe­cial­ized Musi­cal Per­for­mance at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, where he stud­ied under François Ben­da. This was pre­ced­ed by a bachelor’s degree at the Karol Szy­manows­ki Acad­e­my of Music in Katow­ice with Arka­diusz Adams­ki. Szy­mon began his musi­cal jour­ney at the Music School in Płock, where he was led by Jacek Gro­choc­ki.

A win­ner of over 40 prizes in var­i­ous com­pe­ti­tions, Szymon’s dis­tinc­tions include the 3rd prize at the pres­ti­gious 5th Inter­na­tion­al Clar­inet Com­pe­ti­tion in Ghent and the 1st prize at the 17th Inter­na­tion­al Clar­inet Com­pe­ti­tion “Save­rio Mer­cadante”. Oth­er notable achieve­ments include the 2nd prize at the Inter­na­tion­al Clar­inet Com­pe­ti­tion in Por­to and the 1st prize at the Spon­sor­ship Award of the Basel Orches­tra Soci­ety (Förder­preis der Basler Orch­ester-Gesellschaft).