Kamil Tarnawczyk is a Polish American oboist and multi-instrumentalist whose freelance career has taken him all across the Pacific Northwest. Kamil currently holds oboe and English horn positions in and substitutes for many ensembles including Mid Columbia Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Washington-Idaho Symphony, and has performed with the Seattle Wind Symphony, Harmonia Orchestra, Seattle Philharmonic, and many more.

A passionate chamber musician, Kamil was a fellow of the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival in 2024, and was a founding member of the Viridian Winds wind quintet. As oboist of the Viridian winds, Kamil performed on 98.1 KingFM’s Northwest Focus Live show, was sponsored by the Seattle Polish Home Association to perform a program of Polish music, and was a featured performer at the 2024 Seattle Polish Festival, as well as the 2022 and 2023 Latino Chamber Music Festival hosted by Orquesta Northwest.

Kamil holds a Bachelor of Arts in music theory from the University of Washington where he studied oboe with Mary Lynch VanderKolk and Dan Williams. Kamil currently studies under Dr. Keri McCarthy at Washington State University where he is a graduate teaching assistant and principal Oboe of the WSU Symphony. As an educator, Kamil served as oboe and string faculty at Music Works Northwest in Bellevue, WA and taught several oboe students in the greater Seattle area in his private studio.

In addition to his studies and performance activities, Kamil has worked as a music librarian for the Seattle Youth Symphony and intern for the Seattle Symphony, and greatly enjoys working on orchestrations and chamber music arrangements.